Bluefish: A Powerful Text Editor for Programmers and Web Designers

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. 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.

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