#1 most frequent
United States of America
28.7%592 installations of 2,064
What is BlueFish Editor?
BlueFish is a free and open source text editor supporting a wide range of languages, multiple document interface, powerful search tools, in-line checking and auto-recovery, and other features.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses BlueFish Editor
#2 most frequent
Germany
19.6%404 installations of 2,064
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
6.8%140 installations of 2,064
BlueFish: A solid editor that has been around for a long time
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.
Return on Investment
- 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.
Alternatives Considered
BBEdit, Atom and Notepad++
Other Software Used
Atom, BBEdit, Notepad++, Apache OpenOffice
Bluefish, a lightweight, versatile, open language editor
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.
Return on Investment
- Like any Open solution, the ROI is relative to what you need to do to develop at the same level as a proprietary solution. BlueFish has zero learning curve and is compatible with a myriad of languages, so you can be productive as need be with no investment whatsoever. I'd call that significant ROI.
Alternatives Considered
Notepad++