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bluefish 2.2.0


After 16 development releases and 3 release candidates, Bluefish 2.0.0 is finally ready.

Bluefish is a powerful open source text editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. It runs on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

Version 2.0.0 has many parts re-written and many new features. See the changelog for complete details. Also take a look at the features page.


Here is an introduction video for Bluefish 2.0.0:




To install Bluefish 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 or newer, paste this in a terminal:
sudo wget http://debian.wgdd.de/stuff/debian.wgdd.de_sid.list -N -P /etc/apt/sources.list.d
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wgdd-archive-keyring
sudo apt-get install bluefish


For other Linux distributions and Windows downloads, see the Wiki page or download the source code.