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Bluefish: The Definitive Guide

Table of Contents (part 1)

 
see also:  Notes for Bluefish 2 Manual
Guidelines for Writing this Manual


Bluefish 2.0 Manual

Preface

About this Manual ¤ What is Bluefish? ¤ History of Bluefish ¤ Main Features of Bluefish ¤ How Stable is Bluefish? ¤ Contact Us

Getting and Installing Bluefish

For Bluefish 2, please see
Installing Bluefish / Compiling Bluefish from source

old pages from Bluefish 1 Manual:

Getting Bluefish

Choosing a Version ¤ How and When Updates are Released ¤ Operating Systems Supported by Bluefish
2. Latest Stable Version ¤ 3. Latest Snapshot Version ¤ 4. Latest Developmental Version

Installing Bluefish

1. Requirements ¤ 2. Quick Standard Installation ¤ 3. System Specific Installation Issues
4. Installing a Bluefish Source Distribution ¤ Quick Installation Overview ¤ Installing from Development Source Tree|4.2. Installing from Development Source Tree ¤ Problems Compiling?
5. Configure Options ¤ Standard configuration flags ¤ Flags personal to bluefish
6. Installing a Binary Distribution ¤ 7. Post-installation Setup

Using Bluefish

Starting Bluefish

1. Launching Bluefish ¤ 2. Command line options

The user interface

1. Editing Area ¤ 2. Menus and Tool Bars ¤ 3. Side Panel ¤ 4. Status Bar ¤ 5. Help Menu

Preferences

Working with files and folders

1. Creating files ¤ 2. Managing directories ¤ 3. Opening files ¤ 4. Saving files ¤ 5. Renaming files ¤ 6. Deleting files ¤ 7. Closing files ¤ 8. Inserting files
9. Editing ¤ Undo and Redo ¤ Cut, Copy, and Paste ¤ Input methods
10. Basic Find and Replace ¤ Searching for a word within a whole document ¤ Setting limits to the search scope ¤ Case sensitive search ¤ Overlapping searches ¤ Retrieving previous search strings ¤ More on find ¤ Replacing features ¤ Retrieving previous replace strings ¤ Changing letter case when replacing ¤ Choosing strings to replace ¤ More on replace
11. File types ¤ Syntax highlighting
12. More on files ¤ Remote files ¤ Character encoding ¤ Open advanced

Navigation and Managing documents

Navigating through a document
2. Navigating through many documents ¤ 3. Projects
4. Bookmarks ¤ Generating several bookmarks at once]]
5. Find and Replace ¤ Find Again ¤ Find from Selection ¤ Find and Replace Using Regular Expressions
Templates

More than a Text Editor

1. Indenting ¤ 2. Autocompletion ¤ Hidden features ¤ 3. Spell checker ¤ 4. Function reference
5. HTML ¤ Special find and replace features ¤ Thumbnail generation
6. Customizing the Quick bar
7. Snippets plugin (was Custom menu in Bluefish 1) ¤ Adding a snippet dialog ¤ Adding a snippet replace dialog
8. External programs, filters ¤ Customizing browsers ¤ Customizing Commands menu ¤ Customizing Ouputbox menu

Customising Bluefish

Modifying shortcut keys
2. Showing hidden files and folders ¤ 3. Showing backup files ¤ 4. Editor appearance ¤ 5. Customizing the bookmarks path ¤ 6. Customizing the html tags style ¤ 7. Changing the author meta tag on the fly
8. Customizing files handling and browsing ¤ Setting the encoding meta tag on save ¤ Setting the default base directory ¤ Merging file browser views ¤ 8.4. Backup files ¤ 8.5. Using multiple instances of a file
9. Customizing the user interface ¤ 10. Modifying file types ¤ 11. Modifying the files filters ¤ 12. Modifying the highlighting patterns

Developing Bluefish

Debugging Bluefish

1. Using the Debugger ¤ 2. Filling a bug report

Reference

1. Options in the Editor Tab ¤ 2. Options in the HTML Tab ¤ 3. Options in the Files Tab ¤ 4. Options in the User interface Tab ¤ 5. Options in the Images Tab

Development guidelines

Indenting and formating style
2. Naming ¤ 3. Declaring procedures ¤ 4. Header files ¤ 5. New files ¤ 6. File reference ¤ 7. Patches
8. Translations ¤ Introduction ¤ PO files basics ¤ Shortcut keys ¤ How to contribute
9. Some tips ¤ 10. Making releases ¤ 11. Useful stuff

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