Bluefish vs PSPad
Bluefish
bluefish.openoffice.nlPSPad
pspad.comSide by side
| Figure | Bluefish | PSPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Editor Software | 8.8 (#2) | 7.7 (#27) |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.7 (#10) | 7.9 (#47) |
| Spec score · Code editors | 8.5 (#12) | 7.8 (#33) |
| Extension support | Yes | Yes |
| External tools | Users can integrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, and javac, or run custom programs and scripts. | Users can call external programs and configure an external compiler with output capture, a log window and log parser. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Intended users | The project describes Bluefish as targeted toward programmers and web developers. | The author describes it as useful for people working in programming environments, editing source code or plain text, and seeking a small tool with simple controls. |
| Languages | It supports more than 30 markup and programming languages. | It supports syntax highlighting for many languages, including HTML, PHP, XHTML, R, JavaScript, ASP, Perl and C. |
| 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. | Users with questions or problems can visit the PSPad discussion forum, and registered users can receive email messages about selected topics. |
| Supported platforms | Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. | Windows |
Plans
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.