View source for Notes for Bluefish 2 Manual

== Bluefish 1.3 features ==
from: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/features.html<br />
Bluefish 1.3 (the development version) mostly has the same features with some notable exceptions or additions:

* In-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation.
* Code block folding
* Highlighting matching block start and end markers (both brackets and tags)
* Auto-completion for many programming languages, and even for nested languages (e.g. css inside html)
* Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
* Character map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)
* Upload / download synchronisation
* Full screen editing
* In-line reference information (move your mouse over a function name or tag name) for various programming languages
* Many new tools (tabs to spaces, join lines, etc. etc.)

=== Bluefish 2.0 new features ===
* Right margin
* [[Templates]] function (XHTML 1.0, HTML 5, C Header, C Header GPL and PHP
* Tab key indent a block, tab / shift tab for indent/unindent
* toggle bookmark on doubleclick  (to add to [[Man 2 ch06s04]])

== scanner ==
Bluefish can Highlight the syntax of more than 20 languages, eg:<br />
Ada, ASP-VBScript, ASP, C, C++, CSS, D, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, NSIS, Perl, PHP, gettext PO, Python, Ruby, Shell, Smarty, VBScript, XHTML, XML.
=== Enable/disable scanner ===
Use Document &gt; Highlight Syntax.

=== Edit preferences ===

[[File:Man2 Generic HTML Textstyle.png|500px|thumb|left|Edit preferences Generic HTML Textstyle]]
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=== Contributing ===
A lot of information is available in these two files in bluefish/data/bflang/ :<br />
[https://bluefish.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bluefish/trunk/bluefish/data/bflang/bflang2.bflang2 bflang2.bflang2] [https://bluefish.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bluefish/trunk/bluefish/data/bflang/sample.bflang2 sample.bflang2]

In Bluefish 2, Custom menu is replaced by Snippets in the left panel.<br />
Bluefish_2 comes without any snippets. You have to [[:Category:Snippets repository|import]] or create them.
{{note|text= To import your Bluefish_1 Custom menu in snippets you can use Olivier's python script [[convert_custom_menu_to_snippets.py]].
*put convert_custom_menu_to_snippets.py in ~/.bluefish/ directory
*make the script executable: chmod a+x convert_custom_menu_to_snippets.py and run the script.}}

== Editing Snippets ==


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