Bluefish vs Kakoune
Bluefish
bluefish.openoffice.nlKakoune
kakoune.orgSide by side
| Figure | Bluefish | Kakoune |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Editor Software | 8.8 (#2) | 8.1 (#16) |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.7 (#10) | 8.0 (#43) |
| Spec score · Code editors | 8.5 (#12) | 7.7 (#37) |
| Customization options | Bluefish is highly customizable and includes customization tips. | Users can extend or customize Kakoune with macros and hooks. |
| Extension support | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Platforms | The download page lists Linux packages and installers for Windows 64-bit and Mac OSX; it also provides a Linux Flatpak. | The project says Kakoune can be built on Linux, macOS, and Cygwin; it says no native Windows version is planned. |
| Support | The volunteer-run project offers community and support mailing lists, directs bug reports to its bug tracker, and lists commercial support by contacting the project. | The project directs users to its community on Matrix and IRC for questions and remarks. |
| Supported platforms | Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. | Linux,macOS |
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In their own words
Bluefish
Bluefish is a free, open-source desktop editor for programmers and web developers. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and supports more than 30 markup and programming languages. The editor is designed for websites, scripts, and programming code, with project support for working across multiple projects while restoring each project’s settings. Bluefish can load and save remote files through FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, and CIFS via gvfs. Editing tools include regular-expression search and replace, snippets, unlimited undo and redo, crash recovery for modified documents, code folding, bracket and tag highlighting, autocompletion, and automatic tag closing for many languages. It can open more than 1,000 documents, with the features page reporting tests above 10,000 simultaneously. External programs and custom scripts can be integrated. The official Flatpak’s strict security blocks some system-tool and browser integrations.