Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages.
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 (depending on your gvfs setup, you’ll have FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS and more). 1
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.1
Integrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom script.1
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)
Upload / download synchronisation
Full screen editing
Many tools such as tabs to spaces, join lines, lines to columns, strip whitespace, etc. etc.
