Bluefish is a long‑standing, cross‑platform code editor aimed at programmers and web developers. It’s fast, efficient, and packed with productivity‑boosting tools without becoming bloated.

✨ Highlights / Features

⚡ Starts in milliseconds — handles huge projects and 1000+ files with ease.

🌐 30+ languages supported — HTML, CSS, JS, Python, PHP, XML, and more.

🧩 Highly customizable — tweak UI, panels, shortcuts, and workflows.

📁 Project support — manage large codebases cleanly.

🌍 Remote editing — open/save files directly from servers.

⚙️ Emmet/Zencoding — rapid HTML/CSS expansion.

🔍 Advanced search & replace — full Regex engine.

🌓 Dark‑theme aware — auto‑adjusts text colors (new in 2.4.1).

🪟 Side‑by‑side editing — now fully stable (2.4.1).

🏷️ Simultaneous tag editing — change opening/closing HTML/XML tags together.

📝 Template saving — quickly turn current content into reusable templates.

🧭 UI presets — choose layouts for webdev, programming, or full‑feature mode.

Why it matters
Bluefish remains one of the most capable lightweight editors on Linux, macOS, Windows, and BSD — fast, stable, and full of “speed you up” features without taking control away from the coder.