keeping track of specific characters in a GtkTextBuffer

Hi,

I need to be able keep track of the location of
specific characters in a GtkTextBuffer, and I was
wondering what the most efficient way of doing that
was. Is it possible to have pointers to characters in
the buffer? I had thought about inserting a
GtkTextMarker whenever the user types the character
I'm interested in, but the documentation says: "If the
text surrounding the mark is deleted, the mark remains
in the position the text once occupied", and I would
want the marks to be deleted along with the text. If
that's the right approach, I suppose when the user
deletes any text I could check all the marks to see if
they were in that text and then delete them myself,
but that seems a bit inefficient to me.

All and any ideas are welcome! :)



		
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