guess_language


Description:

public unowned Language? guess_language (string? filename, string? content_type)

Picks a [class@Language] for given file name and content type, according to the information in lang files.

Either filename or content_type may be null. This function can be used as follows:

```c GtkSourceLanguage *lang; GtkSourceLanguageManager *manager; lm = gtk_source_language_manager_get_default (); lang = gtk_source_language_manager_guess_language (manager, filename, NULL); gtk_source_buffer_set_language (buffer, lang); ```

or

```c GtkSourceLanguage *lang = NULL; GtkSourceLanguageManager *manager; gboolean result_uncertain; gchar *content_type;

content_type = g_content_type_guess (filename, NULL, 0, &result_uncertain); if (result_uncertain) { g_free (content_type); content_type = NULL; }

manager = gtk_source_language_manager_get_default (); lang = gtk_source_language_manager_guess_language (manager, filename, content_type) ; gtk_source_buffer_set_language (buffer, lang);

g_free (content_type); ```

etc. Use [[email protected]_mime_types] and [[email protected]_globs] if you need full control over file -> language mapping.

Parameters:

this

a LanguageManager.

filename

a filename in Glib filename encoding, or null.

content_type

a content type (as in GIO API), or null.

Returns:

a Language, or null if there is no suitable language for given filename and/or content_type. Return value is owned by this and should not be freed.




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