Bluefish vs TextMate
Bluefish
bluefish.openoffice.nlTextMate
macromates.comSide by side
| Figure | Bluefish | TextMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 5 |
| Spec score · Editor Software | 8.8 (#2) | 7.9 (#23) |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.7 (#10) | 8.4 (#22) |
| Spec score · Code editors | 8.5 (#12) | 8.0 (#27) |
| Customization options | Bluefish is highly customizable and includes customization tips. | Users can customize TextMate with bundles for languages, markup systems, and workflows. |
| Extension support | Yes | Yes |
| Open-source license | Bluefish is an open source development project released under the GNU GPL licence. | The maker’s 2012 announcement says TextMate 2 source is available on GitHub under GPL 3. |
| 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 maker lists email support, a mailing list, and an IRC channel for interactive support or general discussion. |
| Supported platforms | Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. | macos |
| What it does | Bluefish is a lightweight editor for programmers and web developers to write websites, scripts, and programming code. | TextMate is an open-source, customizable text editor for macOS with support for many programming languages. |
Plans
TextMate
- TextMate 2Free
- Site license — 100 seatsPrice not published
- Site license — 30 seatsPrice not published
- Site license — 50 seatsPrice not published
- Site license — unlimited seatsPrice not published
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.