LinuxCult: A Review of Bluefish | Linux Today

LinuxCult: A Review of Bluefish

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 5, 2006

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“Bluefish, the GTK-based text editor tailored for dynamic web
programming, includes most standard features like syntax
highlighting and multiple documents, but also some very neat
features such as integrated documentation, boilerplate code, and
dialogs and wizards. In this article, we will evaluate Bluefish’s
unique features as well as its shortcomings.

“Bluefish is an editor designed especially for writing code for
websites–both static and dynamic. Unlike most free development
tools on GNU/Linux, that are focused on more general programming,
Bluefish is packed with useful features unique to the domain of web
programming. Due to this focus, it can be much quicker to learn to
use and become productive with, though it is aimed developers with
some experience…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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