Bluefish is a great tool for programmers or web designers. It is a handy text editor. It looks similar to NotePad, but differs from it with interesting features.
Bluefish features
- Bluefish is a very fast program - you can work with 10,000 open files without problems! This can be explained by the fact that it is a light-weight application which doesn't bog down your RAM. On Intel Atom processors the application runs without problems.
- You can run quite a large number of projects in one editor window.
- The program works on different operating systems: there is a version for Windows and for Linux.
- With the help of tabs it is convenient to switch your attention to several documents at the same time.
- Like all editors, Bluefish has customizable highlighting. It is convenient to turn it on for different codes, HTML or CSS markups.
- When the system crashes, all documents are saved, and the next time you turn it on, it starts automatically
- HTML tags are closed by themselves, which is very convenient for developers.
- All the most common encodings are recognized, including UTF-8.
- You can collapse paragraphs or text blocks and thus improve orientation if you write lengthy code.
- Search that uses POSIX standards and supports substitution.
- Perl-compatible regular expression recognition.