If I got things right, Gtk-Perl supports only gtk 1.2. In that version, I have not seen any nice Tk like text features like tags that permit to associate to specific text sections properties like fonts, colors or handlers. See Tk::Text

I would be happy to be proven wrong because this is the only thing that keep me using Tk. For example the Tk::FileSelect widget mapped but beeing totally blank for many seconds while readding a dir with many entries is enough to drive me mad.

Some references: gtk 1.2, gtk 2.0

The text stuff in 2.0 seems complex but interesting and includes a tag mechanism. This is a nice overview. I have no experience with this gtk text stuff in C. But existence of tags in gtk 2.0 is moot point if I stick to perl until gtk 2.0 is supported from perl.

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