Bluefish is a programmer's Web development editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes.

It features a multiple file editor, multiple toolbars, custom menus, image and thumbnail dialogs, open from the Web, CSS dialogs, PHP, HTML, Java, C, and XML support, external program integration (tidy, weblint, make, javac), and lots of wizards.

Here are some key features of "Bluefish ":

· A What You See Is What You Need interface
· Multiple document interface, easily opens 500+ documents (tested 3500 documents simultaneously)
· Project support, enables you to work efficiently on multiple projects
· Support for remote files using gnome-vfs (depending on your gnome-vfs setup, you'll have FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, Samba and more)
· Customizable syntax highlighting based on Perl Compatible regular expressions, with subpattern support and default patterns for

· HTML
· PHP
· C
· Java
· JavaScript
· Java server pages (JSP)
· SQL
· XML
· Python
· Perl
· Cascading stylesheets (CSS)
· ColdFusion
· Pascal
· R
· Octave/Matlab

· Anti aliased text window
· Multiple encodings support, can convert between different character sets, supports multibyte characters, unicode, UTF8 etc.
· Line numbers along the document, bookmarks in documents and an excellent search function
· Nice wizards for startup, tables, frames, and others
· Dialogs for many HTML tags, with all their attributes
· HTML toolbar and tearable menu's
· Compliance with the Gnome and KDE user interface guidelines where possible
· User-customizable toolbar for quick access to often used functions
· Open files based on filename patterns and/or content
· Fully featured image insert dialog
· Thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image
· Multi thumbnail generation for easy creation of photo albums or screenshot pages
· A custom menu, specify your own tags or sets of code, and define your own dialogs
· Very powerful search and replace, allowing POSIX and Perl Compatible regular expressions and sub-pattern replacing
· Custom search and replace pattern support for the Custom menu
· Excellent unlimited undo/redo functionality
· Function reference browser, including reference files for PHP, CSS, Python and obviously HTML
· Configurable recent documents and recent directories functionality
· Complete translations in Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Tamil. Some other languages are partially supported.
· User customizable integration of many programs, including weblint, tidy, make, javac etc. etc.
· Auto tag closing for HTML and XML documents
· Escape functions for HTML and XML documents

Requirements:

· gtk version 2.0 or higher
· libpcre 3.0 or higher
· (optional) libaspell 0.50 or higher for spell checking
· (optional) gnome-vfs for remote files.

What's New in This Release:

· This development snapshot has many performance improvements in the syntax scanning engine, more auto-completion strings, and many minor bugfixes.
· The development tree can be installed side-by-side with the stable releases.