Notes for Bluefish 2 Manual
Bluefish 1.3 features
from: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/features.html
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.)
scanner
Bluefih can Highlight the syntax of a lot of languages, 22 actually:
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/desable scanner
Use Document > Highligt Syntax.
Edit preferences
Contributing
A lot of informations are available in these two files in bluefish/data/bflang/ :
bflang2.bflang2 sample.bflang2
snippets
In Bluefish_2 Custom menu is replaced by Snippets in left panel.
To import your Bluefish_1 Custom menu in snippets you can use Olivier's python script convert_custom_menu_to_snippets.py