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About Bluefish 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. See features for an extensive overview, take a look at the screenshots, or download it right away. Bluefish is an open source development project, released under the GNU GPL licence.Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris.Bluefish Features Bluefish has many features, this list will give you an overview of the most important or outstanding features in Bluefish 2.2. Not all features are (yet) available on Windows or Mac OSX. 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 more1Very 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 patternsSnippets 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 processIntegrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, javac, or your own program or script to handle advanced text processing or error detectionIntegrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom scriptUnlimited undo/redo functionalityIn-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation2Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdownCharacter map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)3Site upload / download1Full screen editingMany tools such as tabs to spaces, join lines, lines to columns, strip whitespace, etc. etc.Customizable programming language support: In-line reference information (move your mouse over a function name or tag name) for various programming languagesCode block foldingHighlighting 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 and javascript inside html code that is inside a php document) with included language definition files for: AdaASP .NET and VBSC/C++CSSCFMLClojureDgettext POGoogle GoHTML, XHTML and HTML5Java and JSPJavaScript and jQueryLuaOctave/MATLABMediaWikiNSISPascalPerlPHPPythonRRubyShellSchemeSQLSVGValaWordpressXML Multiple encodings support. Bluefish works internally with UTF8, but can save your documents in any desired encoding.Bookmarks functionalityHTML toolbar and tearable menu's Dialogs and wizards for many HTML tags, with all their attributesFully featured image insert dialogThumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image, and multi-thumbnail creationUser-customizable toolbar for quick access to often used functions ZenCoding support1,4Compliance with the Gnome and KDE user interface guidelines where possibleTranslations into 17 languages - and more are coming for the next releases . 1: not (yet) available, or limited available on native windows and native Mac OSX packages. 2: optional, requires libenchant. 3: optional, requires libgucharmap. 4: optional, requires python.