Install Bluefish 2.2.8 text editor on Ubuntu, via PPA. Terminal commands to install Bluefish open-source text editor on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems. Bluefish 2.2.28 supports a lot of programming languages – Ada, ASP .NET and VBS, C/C++, CSS, HTML, XHTML and HTML5, Java and JSP, JavaScript and jQuery, Lua, Pascal, Perl and PHP.
The Bluefish text editor has many exciting features, such as:
- Lightweight – Bluefish tries to be lean and clean, as far as possible given it is a GUI editor.
- Fast – Bluefish starts really quick (even on a netbook) and loads hundreds of files within seconds.
- Multiple document interface, easily opens 500+ documents (tested >10000 documents simultaneously)
- Project support, enables you to work efficiently on multiple projects, and automatically restores settings for each project.
- Multi-threaded support for remote files using gvfs, supporting FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS and more1
- Very powerful search and replace, with support for Perl Compatible regular expressions, sub-pattern replacing, and search and replace in files on disk.
- Open files recursively based on filename patterns and/or content patterns
- Snippets sidebar – specify custom dialogs, search and replace patterns or insert patterns and bind them to a shortkut key combination of your liking to speed up your development process
- Integrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, javac, or your own program or script to handle advanced text processing or error detection
- Integrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom script
- Unlimited undo/redo functionality
- In-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation
- Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
- Character map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)
- Site upload / download
- Full screen editing
- Many tools such as tabs to spaces, join lines, lines to columns, strip whitespace, etc. etc.
Bluefish 2.2.8 is the latest version available of the Bluefish text editor. Bluefish 2.2.8 can be installed on Linux Ubuntu Systems, via PPA – GTK+3 package and non-GTK+3 package.
Install GTK+3 Bluefish Editor
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bluefish
Install non-GTK+3 Bluefish Editor
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/bluefish-gtk2
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bluefish
Once installed, open the Bluefish text editor from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.
If you want to uninstall and remove Bluefish text editor, run the command:
$ sudo apt-get remove bluefish