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.

## Features

* 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 more

* 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

* 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 compilation

* Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown

* Character map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)

* Site upload / download

* Full screen editing

* Many tools such as tabs to spaces, join lines, lines to columns, strip whitespace, etc. etc.

* Customizable programming language support