Preferences
Since revision 6165 (Bluefish 2.0.3) there are many changes in the preferences dialog, editor settings and HTML.
for preview versions see Preferences (before 2.0.3)
Initial documents settings
Non Project defaults
See also Projects.
Mime type
A file not being part of a project will be of this specified Mime type by default.
Template
Any newly created document which is not part of a project will start as such a template. See also Templates.
Options
Enable auto-completion
Enable block folding
Display block stack in status bar
Highlight block delimiters
Highlight current line
Show line numbers
Show right margin indicator
Smart auto indenting
Wrap lines
Enable syntax scanning
Show visible spacing
Enable spell check
Tab stops
Tab width
Insert spaces instead of tabs
Editor settings
Smart auto intending
Smart Home/End cursor positioning
Tab key intends selection
Automatically insert closing brackets
Right margin/split line end position
Wrap line on right margin indicator
Visible white space mode
Files
Encoding
Default character set for new files
Auto set <meta> HTML tag on encoding change
Misc
Strip trailing spaces on save
Open command line files in running bluefish process
Open command line files in new window
Check if file is modified on disk
File properties to check for modifications
Show warning for files with very long lines
User interface
Layout
Document tab positions
Maximum file name length shown in tab
Sidebar position
Sidebar tab position
Misc
Hide toolbars on full-screen
User interface language
Recent Files
Recent files shows
Number of files in 'Open recent' menu
Images
Thumbnails
Thumbnail file type
Thumbnail suffix
External commands
See article on External Programs and Filters.
External filters
See article on External Programs and Filters.
Output parsers
See article on External Programs and Filters.
Plug ins
About Dialogue
Character Map
Convert Entities
HTML Features
Info Browser
Code Snippets
Language support
Here are language specific settings.