Bluefish

Bluefish is a feature-rich word processing application for programmers and web designers, which offers support for JavaScript, PHP, Perl, C/C++, HTML, Java, Python, Ruby, XML, XHTML and VisualBasic scripts, among others.

The interface is clean and well-organized. Thanks to the Explorer-based folder structure, you can easily navigate directories to locate and edit files.

You can edit tags and colors, add bookmarks, select the input method, and insert Unicode control characters. Bluefish includes spellcheck dictionaries in multiple languages and supports syntax highlighting. It lets you switch to full screen mode, insert preset code, and synchronize text block.

The tool is able to create commands for Windows 7 Internet Explorer (x86 and x32) and Windows XP Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer. You can insert tags for headings, entities, format (general, by context or layout), tables, lists, forms, HTML5-supported, and others.

Other options of the program enable you to perform conversions (e.g. characters to entities, to lowercase, URL decoding), count words, duplicate lines, generate Lorem Ipsum text, use an advanced search and replace function (e.g. match pattern, scope, case sensitive), and more.

The application is low-demanding when it comes to CPU and RAM. It has a good response time and works well, without causing the operating system to hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. Thanks to its wide range of options and configurable settings, Bluefish should please programmers and web desginers.