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Bluefish for macOS
Edit website code, scripts and programming files with Bluefish, a free open-source editor available for Mac.
Version 2.4.2 · Direct publisher file
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What is Bluefish?
Bluefish is a source-code editor for people who write websites, scripts and programs. It combines syntax-aware editing with a project file browser, reusable snippets and search across files. Language definitions cover HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and C/C++, among others; code folding, completion and automatic tag closing help with editing structured documents.
The publisher links a Bluefish 2.4.2 DMG for macOS. Its feature list warns that remote-file access through gvfs, site upload/download and ZenCoding are unavailable or limited in native Mac packages. Do not assume that every feature described for other platforms is included in the Mac download. The publisher pages checked do not specify this DMG’s CPU architecture or minimum macOS version.
The screenshot is a publisher-provided illustration of Bluefish’s side-by-side editor on a Linux desktop, with a 2.4.0beta1 title bar. It illustrates the editing workflow, not the appearance of the current Mac build.
What it offers
- Edit HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, C/C++ and other supported programming or markup languages.
- Organize files into projects and reuse text patterns from the snippets sidebar.
- Search and replace with Perl-compatible regular expressions, including across files on disk.
- Use code folding, completion and automatic closing of supported tags.
- View documents side by side.
Good to know
- The publisher marks gvfs remote-file support, site upload/download and ZenCoding as unavailable or limited in native Mac packages.
- The publisher download page does not state the selected DMG’s CPU architecture or minimum macOS version.
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