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Package ID

bluefish

Version

2.2.10

Downloads

4379

Website

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

Summary

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers.

Description

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages.

Bluefish Features

• 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 (tested >10000 documents simultaneously)
• Project support, enables you to work efficiently on multiple projects, and automatically restores settings for each project.
• Multi-threaded support for remote files using gvfs, supporting FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS and more
• Very powerful search and replace, with support for Perl Compatible regular expressions, sub-pattern replacing, and search and replace in files on disk.
• Open files recursively based on filename patterns and/or content patterns
• 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
• Integrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, javac, or your own program or script to handle advanced text processing or error detection
• Integrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom script
• Unlimited undo/redo functionality
• In-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation
• Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
• Character map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)
• Site upload / download
• Full screen editing
• Many tools such as tabs to spaces, join lines, lines to columns, strip whitespace, etc. etc.
• Customizable programming language support
• Multiple encodings support. Bluefish works internally with UTF8, but can save your documents in any desired encoding.
• Bookmarks functionality
• HTML toolbar and tearable menu’s
  • Dialogs and wizards for many HTML tags, with all their attributes
  • Fully featured image insert dialog
  • Thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image, and multi-thumbnail creation
  • User-customizable toolbar for quick access to often used functions
• ZenCoding support

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