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BlueFish Editor Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8 out of 10
Score
8 out of 10

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Pros

Lightweight and Space-saving: Many users have praised Bluefish for being lightweight and consuming very little space on the hard disk. This is an important advantage, as it allows users to install and run the software smoothly without taking up too much storage space.

User-friendly Interface: The software's user-friendly interface has been widely appreciated by reviewers. It can be easily used by non-technical individuals without prior technical knowledge, making it accessible to a wide range of users. Its simplicity and intuitiveness contribute to a positive user experience.

Wide Range of Coding Language Support: Bluefish provides extensive support for various coding languages including Python, Java, HTML, C, and C++. Users find this feature impressive as it allows them to work with multiple languages within the same environment. This versatility enhances productivity and convenience for developers working on different projects.

Reviews

2 Reviews

BlueFish: A solid editor that has been around for a long time

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BlueFish as a general-purpose text and HTML editor. It is being used all over the organization where there are those who prefer a simple GUI based text editor that will work on almost every platform. BlueFish solves one huge problem for us, that being that BlueFish is easily found and simply installed, and is governed by the GNU GPL license.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Not that it matters to me, but the user interface does look a bit dated. However, if you can get over that and realize that this thing can run, on every relevant platform available, and function consistently across them all, it is no big deal.
  • BlueFish needs an easy way to open a file via SSH from within BlueFish. Some kind of "open remote file" function. Other editors have this function.
  • It would be cool if there were some Bootstrap 4.0 stuff added to the editor.

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Jason Smith, DPA
Instructional Technologist in Information Technology at Pomona College (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
BlueFish Editor
5 years of experience

Bluefish, a lightweight, versatile, open language editor

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it on Linux, on which it is stable, functional and uses little resources. It is highly intuitive; you need to know nothing to get right to work. It starts up just as fast as a text editor and allows multiple tabs without crashing. I appreciate common GUI features such as search/replace. undo/redo, and spellcheck, and common toolbars, for example. Working far beyond markup languages such as HTML and CSS, it is an ideal editor for PHP and JavaScript, not to mention others including ASP .NET and VBS, C/C++, Cold Fusion, Java and JSP, jQuery, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, and XML. Another great feature is its automatic tag-closing.

Pros

  • Lightweight
  • Common GUI
  • Works with multiple markup and programming languages
  • As user-friendly as it gets
  • Stable

Cons

  • 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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is perfectly suited for most markup and programming languages, much better than Text docs, but it is not ideal for anyone who'd like a visual editor.

JJ
Jerry Janes
Digital Media Specialist in Marketing at Janes Consulting (U.S.) (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
BlueFish Editor
4 years of experience
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