Bluefish (software)

Bluefish

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Bluefish 1.0 with default toolbars & XHTML
Developer(s)	Bluefish Dev Team
Stable release	1.0.7 / October 30, 2006 (2006-10-30)
Preview release	1.3.1 / January 4, 2009 (2009-01-04)
Repository	sf.net/p/bluefish/code/
Operating system	Linux (POSIX)
Type	Text editor
License	GPL
Website	http://bluefish.openoffice.nl

Bluefish is a web development editor focused towards development of dynamic websites. Bluefish supports development in (among others) HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, Javascript, SQL, Perl, Coldfusion, JSP, Python and Ruby. Bluefish is available for most platforms, including Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, although Windows support is limited. Bluefish is developed in C/GTK+ and can be used integrated in GNOME or independent from GNOME.

Features

• Support for many programming languages found in website development and other development, with syntax highlighting, auto completion and reference help
• Easy and simple integration of external scripts and programs
• Open files over FTP, SSH, HTTP, WEBDAV, SMB or local files
• Easily works with hundreds of files
• Project management enables you to work on multiple different projects
• Dialogs for most often used HTML tags
• Powerful search and replace functionality with regular expression support
• User defined dialogs and snippets to speed up the development process
• Lean and fast, works even on netbooks

Licence

Bluefish is free software/open source and is released under the GPL licence.

See also

• List of HTML editors
• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors
• List of PHP editors

• Winefish, a fork of bluefish for writing in LaTeX.

External links

• Bluefish Editor: Home