Manual 2 ToC
Table of Contents (part 1)
| see also: | Notes for Bluefish 2 Manual |
| Guidelines for Writing this Manual |
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Here an overview of what has been done so far:
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| 2022-12-21 | All unnumbered sections under Preface and Getting and Installing Bluefish have been updated |
Bluefish 2.2 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
Installing Bluefish ¤ Compiling Bluefish from source ¤
Choosing a Version ¤ Latest Stable Version ¤ Latest Snapshot Version ¤ Latest Developmental Version ¤ How and When Updates are Released ¤ Operating Systems Supported by Bluefish ¤ Requirements ¤ System Specific Installation Issues ¤ Installing a Bluefish Source Distribution
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
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