Side Panel

To the left of the editor area is the side panel. If you would prefer that the side bar be on the right side, simply change the setting in the Sidebar location tab found in the Edit → Preferences → User interface menu option.

Bluefish Sidebar Notebook Tab

The side panel consists of a file browser, a bookmark browser, a function reference browser, the snippets plugin, the charmap plugin and an info browser accessible by clicking on the corresponding sidebar notebook tab.

Bluefish Sidebar Notebook Tab

You can choose which plugins are enabled: Edit → Preferences → Plugins . By default the info browser plugin is disabled.
You can choose the Sidebar notebook tab position: Edit → Preferences → User interface

Bluefish File Browser

The file browser provides quick access to files and directories.

Bluefish File Browser

file browser menu

View mode

Filter sub-menu

The bookmark browser

The bookmark browser provides access to previously marked positions in a file.

Bluefish Bookmark Browser

bookmark browser menu

Show file sub-menu

See Bookmarks

The snippets plugin

The snippets plugin...

Bluefish Snippets

snippets menu

More informations about snippets plugin can be found at Chapter VII, 7. Snippets plugin.

The charmap plugin

The charmap plugin...

Bluefish Charmap

The info browser plugin

The info browser plugin references CSS2, HTML, PHP, Python... functions with their syntax.

Bluefish Info Browser

By default the info browser plugin is disabled.
You can choose which plugins are enabled: Edit → Preferences → Plugins .

Contributing

see Bflib