Bluefish – Editor for Programmers and Webdesigners

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. It supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

It supports development in (among others) HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Google Go, Vala, Ada, D, SQL, Perl, ColdFusion, JSP, Python, Ruby and shell. It is available on most platforms, including Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, and Windows.

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Bluefish is developed in C/GTK+ and can be used integrated in GNOME or independent from GNOME. Bluefish fills the niche market between the plain text editors and the full swing IDE: Bluefish is relatively lightweight and easy to learn, while still providing many features to support the development of websites.

Features

• Lightweight – Bluefish tries to be lean and clean, as far as possible given it is a GUI editor.
• Fast – Bluefish starts really quick (even on a netbook) and loads hundreds of files within seconds.
• A What You See Is What You Need interface
• Multiple document interface, easily opens 500+ documents (tested >10000 documents simultaneously)
• Project support, enables you to work efficiently on multiple projects, and automatically restores settings for each project.
• Multi-threaded support for remote files using gvfs (depending on your gvfs setup, you’ll have FTP, SFTP,HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS and more). ¹
• Very powerful search and replace, with support for Perl Compatible regular expressions, sub-pattern replacing, and search and replace in files on disk.
• Open files recursively based on filename patterns and/or content patterns
• Snippets sidebar – specify custom dialogs, search and replace patterns or insert patterns and bind them to a shortkut key combination of your liking to speed up your development process
• Integrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, javac, or your own program or script to handle advanced text processing or error detection.¹
• [advt]Integrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom script.¹
• Unlimited undo/redo functionality
• In-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation.
• Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
• Character map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)
• Upload / download synchronisation
• Full screen editing
• Many tools such as tabs to spaces, join lines, lines to columns, strip whitespace, etc.