gtkEntryBufferDeleteText {RGtk2} | R Documentation

## gtkEntryBufferDeleteText

### Description

Deletes a sequence of characters from the buffer. `n.chars` characters are deleted starting at `position`. If `n.chars` is negative, then all characters until the end of the text are deleted.

### Usage

    gtkEntryBufferDeleteText(object, position, n.chars)

### Arguments

``object`` | a `GtkEntryBuffer`
``position`` | position at which to delete text
``n.chars`` | number of characters to delete

### Details

If `position` or `n.chars` are out of bounds, then they are coerced to sane values.

Note that the positions are specified in characters, not bytes. Since 2.18

### Value

[numeric] The number of characters deleted.

### Author(s)

Derived by RGtkGen from GTK+ documentation

[Package RGtk2 version 2.20.36.3 Index]