Part I. Introduction

Gtef is a library that eases the development of GtkSourceView-based text editors and IDEs. Gtef is an acronym for “GNOME Text Editor Framework”. Some of the Gtef code comes from gedit.

See Gtef on GitHub.

Gtef 2 depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

pkg-config name

For Gtef 2, the pkg-config name is: gtef-2

To compile a program that uses Gtef 2, you can for example use the following command:

$ gcc hello.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtef-2` -o hello