Bluefish

This version includes a range of very small improvements, which makes it much more polished and almost ready to become the next stable release. One notable change is the syntax scanner, which is now almost two times faster. The language syntax definition files are also improved. Several more translations were completed, but there are still many incomplete translations compared to the stable releases.

This release has many small improvements and fixes such as better language syntax support and several completely finished translations, and it supports a native Windows build.

This release has two major new features. The first is inline spell checking, which is programming-language-aware. The second is a menubar for the snippets plugin, for those who liked the old custom menu more than the snippets sidebar. Next to the new features, there are many small improvements, bugfixes, and a speedup of the startup process. Only a few languages are up to date. Most translations need to be updated before a 2.0.0 release.

In Bluefish 1.3.5 the very long Edit menu is reduced, and a new menu Tools is introduced. Many translations still need to be updated for this change. A very important feature was added: Bluefish will now automatically recover modified documents that were not saved due to a process kill or crash. A new utility was added to quickly create columns from a list of text elements. Next to the larger changes 1.3.5 has various language definition improvements, a default MIME type for new documents, some small improvements for the autocompletion, and various small bugfixes and improvements.

This release has several new features such as remote file synchronization (upload or download), text zoom (Ctrl-mouse wheel), toggle comment (Shift-Ctrl-C), split line, join line, language-sensitive indenting, and more. The auto-completion popup has been refined. It is no longer an obtrusive popup, but very fast and intuitive. Tag auto-closing is also done with the auto-completion popup. Several important bugs have been resolved.