Bluefish has many features, this list will give you an overview of the most important or outstanding features.

• Lightweight - Bluefish uses on startup 40%-45% of the memory that other editors such as Quanta and Screem use, and during a full session closer to 33% of what these other editors use.


• Fast - Bluefish loads complete websites within a second.


• A What You See Is What You Need interface


• Multiple document interface, easily opens 500+ documents (tested 3500 documents simultaneously)


• Project support, enables you to work efficiently on multiple projects


• Support for remote files using gnome-vfs (depending on your gnome-vfs setup, you'll have FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, Samba and more)


• Customizable syntax highlighting based on Perl Compatible regular expressions, with subpattern support and default patterns for
  
  
  
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• Anti aliased text window


• Multiple encodings support, can convert between different character sets, supports multibyte characters, unicode, UTF8 etc.


• Line numbers along the document, bookmarks in documents and an excellent search function


• Nice wizards for startup, tables, frames, and others


• Dialogs for many HTML tags, with all their attributes


• HTML toolbar and tearable menu's


• Compliance with the Gnome and KDE user interface guidelines where possible


• User-customizable toolbar for quick access to often used functions


• Open files based on filename patterns and/or content


• Fully featured image insert dialog


• Thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image


• Multi thumbnail generation for easy creation of photo albums or screenshot pages


• A custom menu, specify your own tags or sets of code, and define your own dialogs


• Very powerful search and replace, allowing POSIX and Perl Compatible regular expressions and sub-pattern replacing


• Custom search and replace pattern support for the Custom menu


• Excellent unlimited undo/redo functionality


• Function reference browser, including reference files for PHP, CSS, Python and obviously HTML


• Configurable recent documents and recent directories functionality


• Complete translations in Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Tamil. Some other languages are partially supported.


• User customizable integration of many programs, including weblint, tidy, make, javac etc. etc.


• Auto tag closing for HTML and XML documents


• Escape functions for HTML and XML documents