gtk:text-buffer-backspace (buffer iter &key interactive editable)

buffer -- a gtk:text-buffer object
iter -- a gtk:text-iter position in buffer
interactive -- a boolean whether the deletion is caused by user interaction
editable -- a boolean whether buffer is editable by default

True if the text buffer was modified.

Performs the appropriate action as if the user hit the delete key with the cursor at the position specified by iter. In the normal case a single character will be deleted, but when combining accents are involved, more than one character can be deleted, and when precomposed character and accent combinations are involved, less than one character will be deleted.

Because the text buffer is modified, all outstanding iterators become invalid after calling this function. However, the iterator will be re-initialized to point to the location where text was deleted.