Side Panel

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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.

Figure IV.7. Bluefish Sidebar Notebook Tab

You can choose which plugins are enabled: Edit → Preferences → Plugins . By default the info browser plugin is disabled.
You can choose the Sidebar notebook tab position: Edit → Preferences → User interface

Bluefish File Browser

The file browser provides quick access to files and directories.

Figure IV.8. Bluefish File Browser
file browser menu
View mode
Filter sub-menu

The bookmark browser

The bookmark browser provides access to previously marked positions in a file.

Figure IV.10. Bluefish Bookmark Browser
bookmark browser menu
Show file sub-menu

Adding or deleting a bookmark: right click on the Editing Area.

add bookmark
delete bookmark
if the line is still bookmarked, you can delete the bookmark, else you can create one.

The snippets plugin

The snippets plugin...

Figure IV.14. Bluefish Snippets
snippets menu

More informations about snippets plugin can be found at Chapter VII, 7. Snippets plugin.

The charmap plugin

The charmap plugin...

Figure IV.15. Bluefish Charmap

The info browser plugin

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

Figure IV.9. Bluefish Info Browser