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Bluefish vs Microsoft Edit

Bluefish

bluefish.openoffice.nl

Microsoft Edit

github.com

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FigureBluefishMicrosoft Edit
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
Plans published11
Spec score · Text Editors8.7 (#10)7.8 (#58)
Extension supportYesNo
Free planYesYes
Intended usersThe project describes Bluefish as targeted toward programmers and web developers.The project aims to provide an accessible editor for people who may be unfamiliar with terminals.
Supported platformsLinux, Mac OSX, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.Windows,macOS,Linux

Plans

Bluefish

  • BluefishFree

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Microsoft Edit

  • Microsoft EditFree

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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.

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Microsoft Edit

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