Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts, and programming code.

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts, and programming code.

Lightweight - Bluefish tries to be lean and clean, as far as possible, given it is a GUI editor.
Fast - Bluefish starts really quickly (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 more1
Potent 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 content patterns
Snippets sidebar - specify custom dialogs, search and replace patterns or insert patterns and bind them to a shortcut key combination of your liking to speed up your development process
Integrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, javac, or your 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 compilation2
Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
Character map of all Unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)3
Site upload / download1
Full-screen editing
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