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    BlueFish Editor

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ABlueFish is a free and open source text editor supporting a wide range of languages, multiple document interface, search tools, in-line checking and auto-recovery, and other features.

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    BlueFish Editor
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    BlueFish Editor
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
    Chose BlueFish Editor
    BBEdit is fantastic but it costs money. Frankly, BBEdit is not worth paying for. All you are doing is paying old software and I have a problem asking people to do that. Also, BBEdit is limited to the small Mac Universe. Likewise, Notepadd++ is only found on Windows but I much …
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    Chose BlueFish Editor
    Compare it to what I'd call its WYSIWYG editor, BlueGriffon. Again, the two are fundamentally different solutions. Use them together. Don't waste your money on Adobe or any other proprietary alternative.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    User Ratings
    BlueFish Editor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    BlueFish Editor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    BlueFish is a good basic HTML and text editor that is easy for all to use. If I need someone to grab a friendly editor, then BlueFish is the way to go. If you need an editor to fix a bunch of pages then this editor has a lot of functions that are not found it other editors. Stuff like HTML Tidy or functions that strip extra lines out.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Easily found and downloaded. If I need someone to go to the web and grab it I can tell them the URL. It is easily installed and one can be edited in minutes.
    • BlueFish is easy to use. It can have a non-technical user use it to edit config files or text documents and not have them frustrated. It has a friendly straight forward user interface.
    • BlueFish does a really good job editing HTML documents specifically. Probably one of the best HTML editors left out there.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • There are WYSIWYG Open alternatives, some of which work perfectly as an Open version of Dreamweaver, but the only suggestion I would have is that Bluefish add a WYSIWYG tab, e.g. code/visual.
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    As with most GNU GPL products support is top-notch. Documentation is fantastic, all functions are documented. Also, this product has been around for more than a decade so there is lots of stuff on how to do this or that with this tool. The only thing holding you back from support is your own drive to find a solution. RTFM, my friend.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Compare it to what I'd call its WYSIWYG editor, BlueGriffon. Again, the two are fundamentally different solutions. Use them together. Don't waste your money on Adobe or any other proprietary alternative.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • How can you go wrong with a GNU GPL product that works? That's a really low-risk proposition.
    • It is only returns. It is like 0% investment to 5,000% return.
    • The only negative you will have with this product are those Cretans that despise OSS and the willfully ignorant.
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