Bluefish 2.2.6 released, Available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Redhat, OpenSUSE, Fedora

Bluefish 2.2.6 released, Available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Redhat, OpenSUSE, Fedora


Bluefish is an open source and cross-platform piece of software that provides web developers with a handy and beautifully designed graphical application for editing HTML files and create websites, as well as to write programming code and shell scripts.

Key features include support for a wide range of markup and programming languages, multi-threaded support for remote files, unlimited undo and redo functionality, integration of external programs, powerful search and replace functionality, and project support.

Changelog on Bluefish 2.2.6 :

• This release fixes a critical bug (segfault) in filebrowser that could be triggered if the root directory was set as basedir. It also has a fix for a specific CSS-in-HTML-tag highlighting issue that broke HTML highlighting. The filter code furthermore caused a segfault if the command did not exist. The Windows version finally supports open in running process. Next to these bugs many small issues have been resolved. Development checks are now only enabled if Bluefish is compiled from svn, not if compiled from tarball. Various language files have small improvements, most notably C, Javascript and CSS. Several translations have been updated. A corner case for a new document from a template that does not exist was fixed. The “open” submenu now opens SVG files from the filebrowser instead of inserting an image tag. The included cssmin and jsbeatify have been updated. A syntax scanning issue when replacing large chunks of text was fixed, he “Report bug” link was broken, a new “conditional” option to the language file that makes re-using certain blocks of language files easier was added, and error reporting in outputbox was improved. On OSX filebrowser icons and the “open file” dialog size have been improved.

Bluefish Features

Bluefish has many features, this list will give you an overview of the most important or outstanding features in Bluefish 2.2. Not all features are (yet) available on Windows or Mac OSX.

• Lightweight – Bluefish tries to be lean and clean, as far as possible given it is a GUI editor.
• Fast – Bluefish starts really quick (even on a netbook) and loads hundreds of files within seconds.
• Multiple document interface, easily opens 500+ documents (tested >10000 documents simultaneously)
• Project support, enables you to work efficiently on multiple projects, and automatically restores settings for each project.
• Multi-threaded support for remote files using gvfs, supporting FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS and more¹
• Very powerful search and replace, with support for Perl Compatible regular expressions, sub-pattern replacing, and search and replace in files on disk.
• Open files recursively based on filename patterns and/or content patterns
• Snippets sidebar – specify custom dialogs, search and replace patterns or insert patterns and bind them to a shortkut key combination of your liking to speed up your development process
• Integrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, javac, or your own program or script to handle advanced text processing or error detection
• Integrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom script
• Unlimited undo/redo functionality
• In-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation²
• Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
• Character map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)³
• Site upload / download¹
• Full screen editing
• Many tools such as tabs to spaces, join lines, lines to columns, strip whitespace, etc. etc.
• Customizable programming language support:
  • In-line reference information (move your mouse over a function name or tag name) for various programming languages
  • Code block folding
  • Highlighting matching block start and end markers (both brackets and tags)
  • Auto-completion and auto-tag-closing for many programming languages, with reference information, and even for nested languages (e.g. css and javascript inside html code that is inside a php document)
  with included language definition files for:
  • Ada
  • ASP .NET and VBS
  • C/C++
  • CSS
  • CFML
  • Clojure
  • D
  • gettext PO
  • Google Go
  • HTML, XHTML and HTML5
  • Java and JSP
  • JavaScript and jQuery
  • Lua
  • Octave/MATLAB
  • MediaWiki
  • NSIS
  • Pascal
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Python
  • R
  • Ruby
  • Shell
  • Scheme
  • SQL
  • SVG
  • Vala
  • WordPress
  • XML
• Multiple encodings support. Bluefish works internally with UTF8, but can save your documents in any desired encoding.
• Bookmarks functionality
• HTML toolbar and tearable menu’s
  • Dialogs and wizards for many HTML tags, with all their attributes
  • Fully featured image insert dialog
  • Thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image, and multi-thumbnail creation
  • User-customizable toolbar for quick access to often used functions
• ZenCoding support^1,4
• Compliance with the Gnome and KDE user interface guidelines where possible
• Translations into 17 languages – and more are coming for the next releases 

Bluefish 2.2.6 released, Available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Redhat, OpenSUSE, Fedora

sudo apt-get install bluefish
sudo aptitude install bluefish

Users of Ubuntu releases, for which bluefish doesn’t get any official update by the Ubuntu team in the past had the possibility to use the http://debian.wgdd.de/ubuntu repository. This has become obsolete. You’ll now find recent packages of bluefish in this PPA. Follow the instrcutions given there to add this repository. Then bluefish can be updated to its latest release :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/bluefish

If you’re running on non-GTK3 environment like simple window managers, use the GTK2 PPA instead:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/bluefish-gtk2

Update the package lists so that you can install the editor from that repository:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bluefish

Installing the very latest release on Debian 7.0 (Wheezy/Stable)

deb http://YOURMIRROR.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main

or

deb http://YOURMIRROR.debian.org/debian stable-backports main

And install the package via:

apt-get -t wheezy-backports install bluefish

Report any bugs to the Debian bugtracker.

Please note, that the http://debian.wgdd.de/ repository has become obsolete. See below, how to clean your system. 

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