Bluefish vs SciTE
Bluefish
bluefish.openoffice.nl
SciTE
scintilla.orgSide by side
| Figure | Bluefish | SciTE |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.7 (#10) | 8.5 (#16) |
| Spec score · Code editors | 8.5 (#12) | 8.2 (#21) |
| Customization options | Bluefish is highly customizable and includes customization tips. | Much of SciTE’s behavior can be changed by editing properties files. |
| 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 add external applications to SciTE’s Tools menu through properties-file commands. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Language support | Supports 30+ markup and programming languages. | The documentation lists syntax styling for languages including C/C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, Rust, SQL, HTML, and YAML. |
| 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. | Questions and comments about SciTE are directed to the scite-interest mailing list, which averages fewer than five messages per week. |
| Supported platforms | Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. | Windows,macOS,Linux |
| What it does | Bluefish is a lightweight editor for programmers and web developers to write websites, scripts, and programming code. | SciTE is a Scintilla based text editor with facilities for building and running programs. |
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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.
SciTE
SciTE is a free Scintilla-based text editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows, with tools for building and running programs. It provides automatic syntax styling and can keep multiple files in memory while displaying one file at a time. The documentation lists styling for C/C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, Rust, SQL, HTML, YAML, and other languages. SciTE can compile or run source files and place command output in its output pane. Editing includes multi-cursor, column editing, macro recording, and large-file handling, with extension support. Properties files control much of its behavior and can add external applications to the Tools menu. Windows downloads support Windows 7 and later in 32-bit, 64-bit, and ARM versions. The Linux binary is for 64-bit Intel-compatible processors and requires GTK 2.24 or later. A commercial macOS version is available through the Mac App Store. The listed SciTE plan is free.