Bluefish Editor
Bluefish Editor: A fast, lightweight code editor for programmers and web developers
About Bluefish Editor
Bluefish Editor is a powerful, open-source code editor designed for programmers and web developers. It supports over 30 programming and markup languages, offers advanced features like project management, remote file access, and Zencoding/Emmet support, and is highly customizable. Bluefish is available on Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD, and is licensed under the GNU GPL.
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Yes, Bluefish is an open source development project released under the GNU GPL license, which means it is free to use.
Bluefish runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
Bluefish supports 30+ markup and programming languages.
Bluefish is incredibly fast, supports project management, can load and save files from servers, supports Zencoding/Emmet, has an advanced search and replace engine with Regex support, and is highly customizable.
Recent releases have introduced features like side-by-side editing, automatic text color adjustment for dark themes, and improved UI customization options for web development and programming.
You can get involved by helping with development, testing, or translating. The community is actively looking for translators for various languages.
Bluefish 2.4.1 is a minor maintenance release with notable changes including the stabilization of the 'side by side' feature, automatic text color adjustment for dark themes, and renewed translations for Greek and Tamil.
Starting from version 2.4, Bluefish places config files in different locations depending on the operating system: ~/.config and ~/.local/ on Linux, LocalAppData and RoamingAppData on Windows, and ~/Library/Application Support on macOS.
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