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Bluefish 1.0 Released
datadriven writes "Bluefish 1.0 was released this week. I've been using it for about a year and a half and find it to be about the closest thing I've found to Homesite, which I used before switching to Linux. According to the website the new version features 'A new, very extended manual, better gnome and kde integration, much improved bookmarks, many performance improvements.'"
Here here! I would dearly love to have this running on Windows just for the sake of project management. Not that Bluefish has an extensive project management system. It still would be nice to have one environment to do all my HTML/PHP editing in.
Being that this is a GTK app I wonder how hard it would be to make the conversion? Almost all other GTK projects that I use have windows ports so I wouldn't imagine it would be that difficult.
for anyone who missed the previous releases, here's a list...
v0.1 Onefish
v0.2 Twofish
v0.7 Redfish
Direct away from face when opening.
I'm sorry, but with no Windows support you're not going to get anywhere.
.. and make it snappy!!
Come back when you're finished.
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A bit off-topic now, but Xchat has this lovely little quirk I noticed when I last used the Windows port.
:) This was using the last free version, before it went shareware, so it's likely been fixed by now.
Minimize the main window, and leave the DCC Receive window open. This may not be required, but it will allow you to monitor the status. Have a friend send you a file, and watch it come in. While it's transferring, try to restore the main window -- you can't! It won't come up until the transfer completes.
Mind you, it's entirely possible that it was just my screwy system, but I found it amusing to no end.
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
Oddly, they don't bother to tell you what it is on either the main page or under Features.
A little digging here reveals:
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
I know this is just HTML (and some others...) editor but IMHO it would be great to have embeded Gecko view on the code output from Bluefish (maybe as tab) inside... This just begs to embed Gecko into it (like mozilla-bonobo? it lives?). Or maybe make something that Bluefish can control Firefox window. F.e. when you switch focus from Bluefish to Firefox the page automagically redraws...
Actually it says "Web Development Studio" in the upper right corner of the homepage. But I agree, they don't do a good job of marketing their product.
Q.
I'm a web developer and unlike seemingly every other poster thus far, I use linux. I'm excited about this news.
I last used Bluefish about a year ago, and I absolutely loved it, but... it crashed, often.
I've been using Quanta and have grown to like it, but my environment is Gnome, so Quanta is something of an ungainly beast with all those kde parts loading on top of gnome.
I'm compiling Bluefish now, and can't wait to test it out.