Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages.
Bluefish Features
Lightweight - Bluefish tries to be lean and clean, as far as possible given it is a GUI editor.
Fast - Bluefish starts really quick (even on a netbook) and loads hundreds of files within seconds.
Project support, enables you to work efficiently on multiple projects, and automatically restores settings for each project.
Multi-threaded support for remote files using gvfs, supporting FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS and more
Very powerful search and replace, with support for Perl Compatible regular expressions, sub-pattern replacing, and search and replace in files on disk.
Open files recursively based on filename patterns and/or content patterns
Snippets sidebar - specify custom dialogs, search and replace patterns or insert patterns and bind them to a shortkut key combination of your liking to speed up your development process
Integrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, javac, or your own program or script to handle advanced text processing or error detection
Integrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom script
Unlimited undo/redo functionality
In-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation
Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
Character map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)
Site upload / download
Full screen editing
Many tools such as tabs to spaces, join lines, lines to columns, strip whitespace, etc. etc.
Customizable programming language support
Multiple encodings support. Bluefish works internally with UTF8, but can save your documents in any desired encoding.
Bookmarks functionality
HTML toolbar and tearable menu's
Dialogs and wizards for many HTML tags, with all their attributes
Fully featured image insert dialog
Thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image, and multi-thumbnail creation
User-customizable toolbar for quick access to often used functions