a search string
flags affecting how the search is done
return location for start of match, or NULL. [out caller-allocates][allow-none]
return location for end of match, or NULL. [out caller-allocates][allow-none]
bound for the search, or NULL for the end of the buffer. [allow-none]
whether a match was found
Searches forward for str. Any match is returned by setting match_start to the first character of the match and match_end to the first character after the match. The search will not continue past limit. Note that a search is a linear or O(n) operation, so you may wish to use limit to avoid locking up your UI on large buffers. If the GTK_TEXT_SEARCH_VISIBLE_ONLY flag is present, the match may have invisible text interspersed in str. i.e. str will be a possibly-noncontiguous subsequence of the matched range. similarly, if you specify GTK_TEXT_SEARCH_TEXT_ONLY, the match may have pixbufs or child widgets mixed inside the matched range. If these flags are not given, the match must be exact; the special 0xFFFC character in str will match embedded pixbufs or child widgets.