Bluefish is a powerful text editor for Programmers and web designers. It’s a open source software which is distributed for Free under GNU GPL License. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. I have covered many Alternative text editors to notepad and Bluefish is one among them.
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Key Features of “Bluefish”:
- 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.
- Multiple document interface, easily opens 500+ documents.
- 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
- Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
- Full screen editing
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 inside html)
- With included language definition files for: C/C++, CSS, CFML , gettext PO , HTML, XHTML and HTML5 , Java , JavaScript , JSP , Octave/MATLAB , Pascal , Perl , PHP , Python , R , Ruby , Shell , SQL , XML.
Thanks for the opportunity to test and see new software as new things can be very useful if they are got at the right moment of life.
nice info., but notepad++ always roxx 🙂