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News - June 28 - Bluefish 2.2.3 released

Bluefish 2.2.3 has mostly many minor bugfixes and many minor enhancements. There are only few major changes: a corrupted state in the syntax scanner that could lead to a segfault was fixed, code folding had major fixes and improvements, search had major fixes, and a lorem ipsum generator was added. The GUI was restructured in some areas, and some shortcut key combinations were added. Some visibility features were added such as a bigger cursor and cursor highlighting, and some options were improved such as zoom and the custom colors. External commands had some changes such as better cursor positioning after a filter has been used, user supplied arguments for external commands, and an option to restore the default settings. On the multiplatform front: the broken shortcut key S was fixed on OSX, and file recovery was fixed on Windows. On the web front some dialogs were added for HTML5, the thumbnail generator was fixed, and insert color, path and relative path have been added. Many language files were improved, and more user configurable options have been added to most language files. You can now select a block of text by dragging the mouse in the margin, and move the selected block with <ctrl><up> and <ctrl><down>.

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News - April 5 - Mailinglists functional again

The list servers are working again! The list administration web-interface is also up again.

News - April 3 - Mailinglist infrastructure down

The bluefish mailinglists are currently not functioning. This is being worked on, we hope to retrieve the list of subscribers, so we can re-subscribe all email accounts. This affects the bluefish-users, bluefish-dev and bluefish-cvs lists.

News - March 1 - Bluefish 2.2.2 released

Bluefish 2.2.2 is largely a bug fix release with some very minor new features. A regression in the search functionality was fixed, that caused a segfault if a document with search results was closed. Multiple replace with search results directly next to each other corrupting the text was also fixed. The broken cursor positioning that ruined the Zencoding plugin was also fixed. On the multiplatform front: on Windows handling of the profile directory with non-ascii characters was fixed and on MacOSX image browsing in the image dialog was fixed. Two GTK-3 related bugs where fixed: the CSS dialog was unusable on GTK-3 and the right margin indicator was positioned wrong. Next to the major fixes several small memory leaks where fixed. Next to the bug fixes some small improvements where made. Startup is slightly faster using more threads during startup and improving the document recovery. The annoying scrolling of the side bar filebrowser in 'treeview' mode was fixed, descriptions of language options where fixed, and some menu strings, some HTML5 options where improved, accelerators and shortcut keys got improved and translations got better. The new features: duplicate line and delete line, and the Catalan translation.

News - December 23 - Bluefish 2.2.1 released

Bluefish 2.2.1 is mostly a bug fix release, but it has one major new feature: Zencoding support (requires python). The bug fixes include a fix to build on Gtk+-2.22, many translations are better up-to-date, a fix for PCRE regular expression searching, several layout fixes for Gtk+-3.2, several obscure segfault fixes, a fix for autocompletion of variables in PHP, <img> dialog fixes, and some memory-leak fixes.

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News - November 25 - Bluefish 2.2.0 released

Bluefish 2.2.0 is a new major release and the start for the 2.2 series. Under the hood Bluefish 2.2.0 has a massive number of changes: Bluefish now works with gtk-3 (gtk-2 is still supported), and the syntax scanner had a major overhaul to make it faster, which is especially noticeable when working on large files.

Another big change in Bluefish 2.2.0 is the new search and replace function. It has been completely redesigned: the simple search function is now integrated in the main window, and the new function supports both search and replace in files on disk (next to already opened documents). Other new features include a toggle comment function that is context-aware (add <!-- --> comments in html code, use // comments in javascript code, etc.) and a select block feature that automatically selects the current context block and can be used multiple times to select the parent blocks. Another new feature of the syntax recognition is the autocompletion of user-defined functions, and a jump function that will bring you immediately the the definition of a function.

Next to all the new features many existing features have been improved and polished. Support for new languages has been added, such as Google Go, Vala and Ada. See the introduction to Bluefish 2.2.0 movie for a good overview.

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What others have said about Bluefish

Bluefish is by far the most powerful among the HTML editors we tested. It is probably the most potent editor for Linux in general. (www.suse.com)

GPL-licensed Bluefish has become an excellent 'production tool' for those of who earn our living writing for Web sites, full of little 'speed you up' features [..] It is an excellent example of how a multinational group of talented programmers can produce a piece of work under the GPL that is at least as good as any commercial program (newsforge.com)

The Bluefish HTML editor is an excellent example of of how good open source programs can be. It is feature rich, with lots of time saving tools for experienced coders and friendly enough for newbies to be productive in little or no time. (www.linuxorbit.com)

If you've ever longed for an HTML editor that is easy to use, yet doesn't try to do everything for you, Bluefish is just the editor for you. It has a wealth of features that will make your programming easier, but in the end you retain total control of the HTML. (software.linux.com)

Bluefish marries the best of GUI's and traditional text editing into a customizable, useful package. (www.linuxplanet.com)

One of the most powerful editors for Linux + Supports many programming and markup languages + Lots of time saving tools for experienced users + Friendly enough for beginners + Its wealth of features will make your programming easier + While letting you maintain control over your code (www.lindows.com)