Side Panel
3. Side Panel
To the left of the editor area is the side panel. If you would prefer that the side bar be on the right side, simply change the setting in the Sidebar location tab found in the Edit → Preferences → User interface menu option.
Bluefish Sidebar Notebook Tab
The side panel consists of a file browser, a bookmark browser, a function reference browser, the snippets plugin, the charmap plugin and an info browser accessible by clicking on the corresponding sidebar notebook tab.

You may also customize the location of the sidebar notebook tab via the Sidebar location tab found in
the Edit → Preferences → User interface menu option.
Bluefish File Browser
The file browser provides quick access to files and directories.
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The bookmark browser
The bookmark browser provides access to previously marked positions in a file.
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Adding or deleting a bookmark: right click on the Editing Area.
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if the line is still bookmarked, you can delete the bookmark, else you can create one. |
The snippets plugin
The snippets plugin...
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The charmap plugin
The charmap plugin...

The info browser plugin
The info browser plugin references CSS2, HTML, PHP, Python... functions with their syntax.
