Bluefish
Bluefish is a programmer's Web development editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. It features a multiple file editor, multiple toolbars, custom menus, image and thumbnail dialogs, open from the Web, CSS dialogs, PHP, HTML, Java, C, and XML support, external program integration (tidy, weblint, make, javac), and lots of wizards.
| Tags | Text Editors Text Processing Markup |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
| Translations | Chinese Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Japanese Portuguese Russian Swedish |
Recent releases
- 11 Jun 2009 00:05
Changes: In Bluefish 1.3.5 the very long Edit menu is reduced, and a new menu Tools is introduced. Many translations still need to be updated for this change. A very important feature was added: Bluefish will now automatically recover modified documents that were not saved due to a process kill or crash. A new utility was added to quickly create columns from a list of text elements. Next to the larger changes 1.3.5 has various language definition improvements, a default MIME type for new documents, some small improvements for the autocompletion, and various small bugfixes and improvements.
- 16 Apr 2009 20:58
Changes: This release has several new features such as remote file synchronization (upload or download), text zoom (Ctrl-mouse wheel), toggle comment (Shift-Ctrl-C), split line, join line, language-sensitive indenting, and more. The auto-completion popup has been refined. It is no longer an obtrusive popup, but very fast and intuitive. Tag auto-closing is also done with the auto-completion popup. Several important bugs have been resolved.
- 01 Mar 2009 16:18
Changes: This release features major performance improvements and several new features. Both the start-time of bluefish and the performance while running have been improved. New features include visible spacing (which shows tabs, spaces, non-breaking spaces, etc.) and an optional character map plugin based on libgucharmap. Some serious issues in glib-2.16 were discovered when working with remote files, which may impact Bluefish stability.
- 04 Jan 2009 17:08
Changes: The previous released featured a new editor widget, which was a bit unpolished. Now this widget is much more polished, is faster, and supports more languages. There are many bugs fixed and other improvements implemented. This release is much more suitable for day-to-day use. However, it is still an unstable release, so there are many unfinished features and missing translations.
- 14 Dec 2008 18:19
Changes: A new development release, and the first release in the 1.3.* branch. The 1.3 branch will lead the development to the 2.0 release of Bluefish. The 1.3 branch has the new (faster) editor widget with auto-completion, integrated reference help, and much more. It no longer requires GnomeVFS, since all (remote) file code has been ported to GIO/GVFS.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: screwed up highlighting in 0.10
>
> I just downloaded the latest release
> (0.10), and it just screwed up my
> highlighting.
> With the previous version which I was
> running (the one that was distributed
> with MDK9.1) I never had any
> problems...
> also the selection of several highlights
> was better in previous function, AFAIK
> you cannot select a specific highlight
> now, and have to use the predefined...
>
>
>
> but the rest has improved much!
> no more hangups during highlight refresh
> or slow copy/paste with highlighting
> on.
> Better GUI (although I miss the close
> buttons on every open documenttab).
>
> Nice Project Feature.
> Good rightclick menu.
> and more :D
>
stupid... my fault... I somehow downloaded the old 0.7 version...
screwed up highlighting in 0.10
I just downloaded the latest release (0.10), and it just screwed up my highlighting.
With the previous version which I was running (the one that was distributed with MDK9.1) I never had any problems...
also the selection of several highlights was better in previous function, AFAIK you cannot select a specific highlight now, and have to use the predefined...
but the rest has improved much!
no more hangups during highlight refresh or slow copy/paste with highlighting on.
Better GUI (although I miss the close buttons on every open documenttab).
Nice Project Feature.
Good rightclick menu.
and more :D
pcre
Had to go looking for libpcre, here's the homepage:
www.pcre.org
bluefish-0.9 and pcre-4.2 seems to do it here.
Re: buggy highlighting
> PHP is highlighted by default, and you
> can't turn it off. For example, if you
> type align=justify, then "if"
> inside "justify" will be blue
> anyway. And user-defined buttons would
> be very useful. The rest is great.
> CoffeeCup sucks !
Try the snapshots of the gtk-2 port, there is a new highlighting engine!
buggy highlighting
PHP is highlighted by default, and you can't turn it off. For example, if you type align=justify, then "if" inside "justify" will be blue anyway. And user-defined buttons would be very useful. The rest is great. CoffeeCup sucks !