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  • Excellent editor to use as a general purpose text editor or as part of an IDE. The bookmarks feature to bookmark areas within files is unique, powerful, and extremely useful. Bluefish provides a pane that displays your bookmarks to quickly move to different sections within your files. It is my favourite feature. Thank you for Bluefish!
  • the editor with the best balance between speed and features
  • My first website editor was Kompozer, later Dreamweaver and at last BlueGriffon. I started using Bluefish in version 2.2.12 on macOS Mojave and created a responsive website during an advanced education. This version had a somehow cluttered toolbar, but it worked fine for me, and I got familiar with it after a short time. One week ago I tried the 2.2.13beta1 and really love its tidy GUI, which is a large improvement over the predecessor in my opinion. If I could wish for something, it would be configurable shortcuts like in GIMP. But that's whining at the highest level. The search for a new editor is over, Bluefish is definitely my favorite and number one and will remain so! Many thanks to the developers for providing precompiled Binaries for macOS!
  • Never got past the configure stage. Too many missing or out of date dependencies. Not worth bothering with. MacOS Sierra, I know it's old but not had as much trouble with other software.
  • Thank you very much for the free open source program!
  • Version 2.2.10 for Windows is easy to use but still has some drawbacks.
  • Very good editor. Minus for rare updates. Could You add some multi edit feature and linking between (or passing through) classess/methods?
  • I should have noticed that this app is over 8 years old. I also should have read all the reviews that mention that it doesn't work on Windows. Even on my Windows 7 machine it doesn't INSTALL much less WORK. No wonder why you never see this mentioned along with Sublime nagware and Atom-the-killer-of-resources. How bloody sad the world of editors.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Excelente!
  • Program don't work on W8.1 64bit :(
  • Works on Linux (Debian, LMDE, Mint, Ubuntu) together with FileZilla, but: Minus - new instance instead of new tab on opening one more file is awful! -> How to modify this behaviour? - *.shtml (html/xhtml with SSI) not recognized as html/xhtml -> what about using html doc type? Plus + Good HTML "Any ... Tag ..." feature + German Translation included + eye-friendly syntax highlighting for (x)html, css, etc. + color picker + project manager (not tested) + ... Please ! add *.shtml to html syntax sheme (user defined would be great) - add contact form for non-facebook users -> or should I treat the Minus as "bug" an report it? Please have a look at medit programmers/text editor project (mooedit) on SF.net Many Tnx for Your Work. EDVauler
  • This program install broke 2 of my windows based system. I thought it may have been a fluke the first time. It associated *.vbs files with Bluefish.exe and my computers did not like this. Currenly I dislike this program because of this. DO NOT INSTALL IT AT LEAST IN WINDOWS. I installed Bluefish in both Windows XP and Windows 8.0 and it created problems that took me hours to fix. The program also crashed when I used it too. Take it off this website!!!
  • Program is good but it broke with new Apple IOS Mavericks. When will this be fixed?
  • flexible and glitzy editor for ppl who code. works fine on *nix. i can x forward it over ssh from a *nix server to my desktop, it's stable enuf for that, which is pretty good. not as fast as gedit, but has more features. vi and emacs are pains in the a**, so i prefer bluefish for web development. good for that in particular. if you need help to build a site from windows, try visual studio express for web, free from micro$oft. if you're hardcore but hate terminal editors that force you to remember a million ctrl+ sequences, bluefish is probably something you'd like. conclusion: good editor.
  • Bluefish has great potential, but bugs and crashes during typical use are killing it.
  • Thanks very good project! +
  • Bluefish works great.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Good and useful software
  • Every time I try to download the Windows version I get a "Malware Detected" alert.
  • good tool for programmers, thanks
  • Bluefish has been a great help for me and my projects. I think I will be using it for a long time.
  • I maintain a web site for both Windows and Linux users - having both versions makes it easy. I really like the addtion of HTML5 to version 2.2.2! Great Job! The only addition I can think of would be a popup menu for special characters.
  • Brilliant piece of software
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • I love this program and highly recommend it.
    1 user found this review helpful.
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