Bluefish
No phone app
6.8No. 20 of 43
in Code editors
in Code editors
- Recognised40% of the score47
- Phone app26% of the score0
- Documented20% of the score79
- Free plan14% of the score100
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs on
- Linux, Mac, Windows
Summary
Bluefish is ranked #20 of 43 in code editors on Samsung Mobile US Press. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows. There is a free plan.
Bluefish plans and pricing
All plansCompared on code editors
- Free plan
- Yesbluefish.sourceforge.io
- Supported platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linuxbluefish.sourceforge.io
- Extension support
- Yesbluefish.sourceforge.io
- Remote development
- Yesbluefish.sourceforge.io
- Editor type
- desktopbluefish.sourceforge.io
Facts
- Purpose
- Bluefish is a lightweight editor for programmers and web developers to write websites, scripts, and programming code.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- License
- Bluefish is an open source project released under the GNU GPL license.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Bluefish supports more than 30 markup and programming languages.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- Documents
- Its multiple document interface can open 1,000 or more documents; the features page says more than 10,000 were tested simultaneously.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- Projects
- Project support restores settings for each project automatically.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- Remote files
- Using gvfs, Bluefish supports remote files over FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS, and other protocols.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- Editing tools
- Features include regular expression search and replace, code folding, auto-completion, and auto-tag-closing.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- External tools
- Users can integrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, and javac, or run custom programs and scripts.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- The project says Bluefish runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD; installers are listed for Linux distributions, macOS, and 64-bit Windows.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- Flatpak limitation
- The Flatpak build's strict security blocks integration with system tools such as make, pylint, weblint, and the web browser, while internal functionality works as expected.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- Community and support are volunteer-run through a mailing list and bug tracker; the project says commercial support can be requested by contacting its project manager.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- The project page describes the Flatpak build's strict security restrictions but does not state a security certification or compliance standard.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
- History
- The project history says Bluefish was started by Olivier Sessink, Chris Mazuc, and Neil Millar in 1998.bluefish.sourceforge.io · 4 Oct 2026
Company
- Founded
- 1998bluefish.sourceforge.io · 28 Sept 2026
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Sources
- bluefish.sourceforge.io· checked 4 Oct 2026
- bluefish.sourceforge.io/features.html· checked 4 Oct 2026
- bluefish.sourceforge.io/install.html· checked 4 Oct 2026
- bluefish.sourceforge.io/community.html· checked 4 Oct 2026
- bluefish.sourceforge.io/news.html· checked 4 Oct 2026