Bluefish (text editor)

Bluefish is a free source code editor which is mainly suitable for the creation of HTML documents for websites.

Bluefish is developed by a changing group of Olivier Sessink and distributed as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL). It is written in the C programming language, has a GTK - based graphical user interface and runs on a large part of the POSIX - compatible operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and now also on Windows ( version 2.0.0- rc3 with installation routine ).

It provides syntax highlighting to HTML, PHP and several other languages ​​such as Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, C and Pascal. Since it was developed primarily for HTML, it includes the usual HTML tags, a toolbar and dialogs for attributes such tags. In addition, run external programs very easy to include and expand the range of functions thus.

In addition, Bluefish has a kind of generator for Cascading Style Sheets.

History

The development began in 1997 in two separate projects by Chris Mazuc and Olivier Sessink ( ProSite ), which were later merged under the name THTML editor. The present name came after on the developer mailing list, a hand drawing of a blue fish has been proposed as a logo and adopted by Neil Millar. Beginning of 2005, which specializes in LaTeX cleavage Winefish.