Manual 2 ToC
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
1. Getting and Installing Bluefish
I. 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
===== II. 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
2. Using Bluefish
===== III. Starting Bluefish ===== | 1. Launching Bluefish | 2. Command line options ===== IV. The user interface ===== | 1. Editing Area | 2. Menus and Tool Bars | 3. Side Panel | 4. Status Bar | 5. Help Menu
IVa. Preferences
===== V. 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
Navigating through a document | 2. Navigating through many documents | 3. Projects | 4. Bookmarks | 4.1. Generating several bookmarks at once | 5. Find and Replace | 5.1. Find Again | 5.2. Find from Selection | 5.3. Find and Replace Using Regular Expressions | Templates
- VII. More than a Text Editor | 1. Indenting | 2. Autocompletion was Auto tag closing | 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
VIII. 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
3. Developing Bluefish
===== X. Debugging Bluefish ===== | 1. Using the Debugger | 2. Filling a bug report ===== XI. 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 ===== XII. Development guidelines ===== | 1. 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