![]() ![]() You can set up “projects” within Bluefish to allow you to switch back and forth between various coding projects. You can open files based on custom filters (you can even use a regex search to open files that include specific text within the filename or within the content of the file itself). Within Bluefish, you can store FTP settings in Bluefish to allow you to edit files directly on a remote server. In addition, Bluefish allows you to create your own “quick tool” bar where you can store your favorite functions and code snippets. There are multiple toolbars with common actions and code snippets available for basically any file you open, no matter what language it’s coded in. The editing window offers customizable syntax highlighting for over a dozen different coding languages. You can toggle the integrated file browser to allow you to easily open different files with the browser open and to allow you greater editing space with the browser closed. That makes it extremely easy to switch back and forth between documents. You get tabbed documents, with the ability to “save all”, “close all”, “save this document”, “close this document”, etc. The interface of Bluefish is very simple and very powerful. The developers have been working on a Windows port of the editor for a few years now, but no release has been made as of yet. Unfortunately, Bluefish is currently only available for POSIX-based platforms (which apparently includes basically everything except for Windows). Honestly, I couldn’t have said it better, myself. The developers like to call it a “What You See Is What You Need” interface. It is a plain text editor with a lot of features for coders. It is not a WYSIWYG editor, nor do I ever see it becoming one. It’s almost as though it was developed specifically for me.īluefish is a code editor for people that actually write their code. ![]() It has all of the features I want in an editor and none of the features I don’t want. It is, by far, my absolute favorite code editor. Bluefish Editor is one of my favorite pieces of open-sourced freeware out there.
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