is that supposed to be blue?

tom · Post by **tom** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:30 pm

This is a just a little "editor" heads-up; not serious fare, just a light distraction.

I know that most of us are all set in the editor department, but I recently rediscovered bluefish. It doesn't have a syntax file for newlisp, or newlisp's documentation formatted as a ready-to-paste-from sidebar reference, but those are correctable problems.

The sidebar has tabs labeled "File Browser," "Bookmarks," "snippets," and "Info Browser." If you use the "stable" version (1.0.7), "snippets" is "function reference," and using the spell-checker will crash the editor. The Bluefish guys apparently fixed the crash problem, because in version 1.1.5 I've been spell-checking like mad.

I've got some favorite little functions that I can never quite remember how to write--now with a click I can wrap them around any highlighted word. And so on. This isn't a very comprehensive review, since I've only been messing with it for a couple days, but bluefish definitely gets my tentative thumbs up. Your mileage may vary, and all the standard disclaimers apply...:-)

p.s.
the spell checker still has some issues.

cormullion · Post by **cormullion** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:45 pm

Domain name certainly looks promising:

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ :-)

I might take a look!

cormullion · Post by **cormullion** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:51 pm

on the other hand, if it requires gtk and fink, I won't... :)

tom · Post by **tom** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:13 pm

In that case, I'll proclaim bluefish to be the finest editor every created--you have no way to refute my claim!

(heh, sorry, back to lurking...)

tom · Post by **tom** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:32 pm

Here's a screenshot of bluefish with a newlisp snippit in the sidebar. There's still a way to go before the snippet is finished, but I think it will come in handy. A short description of each function pops up as a tooltip, and the entire newlisp manual can live in the info tab. Bluefish is fun to mess with, anyway.

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