Bluefish editor (original) (raw)

Bluefish features

• Lightweight - Bluefish is superfast and uses little memory (for a GUI editor).
• Bluefish loads hundreds of files within seconds.
• Multiple document interface, easily opens 1000+ 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, supporting FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS and more1
• 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
• Integrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom script
• Unlimited undo/redo functionality
• In-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation2
• Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
• Character map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)3
• Site upload / download1
• Full screen editing
• Many tools such as tabs to spaces, join lines, lines to columns, strip whitespace, etc. etc.
• Customizable programming language support:
  • In-line reference information (move your mouse over a function name or tag name) for various programming languages
  • Code block folding
  • Highlighting matching block start and end markers (both brackets and tags)
  • Auto-completion and auto-tag-closing for many programming languages, with reference information, and even for nested languages (e.g. css and javascript inside html code that is inside a php document)
    with included language definition files for:
  • Ada
  • ASP .NET and VBS
  • C/C++
  • CSS
  • CFML
  • Clojure
  • D
  • gettext PO
  • Google Go
  • HTML, XHTML and HTML5
  • Java and JSP
  • JavaScript and jQuery
  • Lua
  • Octave/MATLAB
  • MediaWiki
  • NSIS
  • Pascal
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Python
  • R
  • Ruby
  • SASS
  • Shell
  • Scheme
  • SQL
  • SVG
  • Vala
  • Wordpress
  • XML
• Multiple encodings support. Bluefish works internally with UTF8, but can save your documents in any desired encoding.
• Bookmarks functionality
• HTML toolbar and tearable menu's
  • Dialogs and wizards for many HTML tags, with all their attributes
  • Fully featured image insert dialog
  • Thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image, and multi-thumbnail creation
  • User-customizable toolbar for quick access to often used functions
• ZenCoding support1,4
• Compliance with the Gnome and KDE user interface guidelines where possible
• Translations into 17 languages.

1: not (yet) available, or limited available on native windows and native Mac OSX packages.
2: optional, requires libenchant.
3: optional, requires libgucharmap.
4: optional, requires python.