Bluefish Editor
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Haiku
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Arduino
- PHP IDE
- Active Development
- Works Offline
- Syntax Highlighting
- Autocompletion
- Ad-free
- Spell Checking
- No registration required
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Support for SFTP
Tags
- FTP
- Web Development
- programming
- programmers-editor
Bluefish Editor News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- arscynic replied to a comment / review on Bluefish Editor
- arscynic reviewed Bluefish Editor
The developer is responsive and quickly implements useful suggested features with a speed I've never witnessed before. Bluefish itself is thus not surprisingly just as fast. It loads as quick or quicker than a simple plain text editor; impressive.
- arscynic liked Bluefish Editor
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What is Bluefish Editor?
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
Bluefish Editor information
Developed by
Olivier Sessink, Daniel LeidertLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.2Alternatives
212 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
The developer is responsive and quickly implements useful suggested features with a speed I've never witnessed before. Bluefish itself is thus not surprisingly just as fast. It loads as quick or quicker than a simple plain text editor; impressive.
I tested Bluefish Editor several times….and every time I ran away in “terror”. The program looks like it’s stuck in 2010 (the UI hasn’t changed probably since that year), is super slow and after using it for 5 minutes you get a strong overall feeling that you’re using old obsolete software.
EDIT = @tuva-hayabi Good for you. :) It doesn’t change the fact that both program and UI look and feel like obsolete messy and unintuitive relics from 2010-11.
I find the interface tidy and intuitive to use.
The data posted here is ages old, Bluefish is currently at version 2.2.12 (a screenshot shows version 1.3.7 - I guess that's from 2009), and the SVN receives sporadic updates. Bluefish supports many languages (spoken as well as programming), not just English. The list is of supported programming languages is vast, though some of it needs updates. But they are working at it. For me, Bluefish is the best Web-Design-IDE I can ask for (Web programming is what I do most, so I can't speak for other programming languages).
Besides HTML, CSS and PHP it supports among others Perl, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, SQL and and and. While I am coding, it provides syntax documentation. It supports snippets with variables, code or text, that is being used repeatedly, which I can design and then insert into my files. Bluefish is lightweight and lighting fast.
I haven't tried other editors which are currently on the alternate list, and I do not feel the need to do so. Just one note: I do not want to use VS Code, as it is proprietary, and I do not want to provide Microsoft with my code... (who knows what VS is doing in the background?).
Exactly. I don’t trust Micro$oft either.
The only disadvantage of Bluefish is, in my opinion, that it uses to freeze for a few seconds if you edit very long lines (which don’t have line breaks).
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Bluefish is perfect for web design and web programming, like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. I use it for this purpose on an almost daily basis.
Bluefish has a nice code colouring, it offers code folding, snippets, toolbars for quick insertion of standard elements, a file explorer, and so forth.
And it runs absolutely stably on my Ubuntu computers.
In 2022, for WYSWYG HTML editing, VSCode or VSCodium with Live Preview extension provides the same functionality, if not better than Bluefish.
Bluefish is not a Microslop [Microsoft] product, which is one of the most important features of all to some.
i like it, it's very useful and the logo idk why but makes me laugh
has php syntax parameter documentation as you type and higlighting