BlueFish Editor vs. CoffeeCup HTML Editor

It is perfectly suited for most markup and programming languages, much better than Text docs, but it is not ideal for anyone who'd like a visual editor.

Incentivized

My typical use is to edit HTML and CFM pages from prior projects, and use them to create new ones. So, I rarely use the tools for designing pages provided in this application. I have found the ability to preview a page very useful. I am aware of numerous features in this editor, that simpler editors would not provide. It has proven to be a great fit for my use.

Incentivized

• Easily found and downloaded. If I need someone to go to the web and grab it I can tell them the URL. It is easily installed and one can be edited in minutes.
• BlueFish is easy to use. It can have a non-technical user use it to edit config files or text documents and not have them frustrated. It has a friendly straight forward user interface.
• BlueFish does a really good job editing HTML documents specifically. Probably one of the best HTML editors left out there.

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• Easy to use editing features
• Helpful analysis of code, and useful suggestions for corrections
• Very useful split-screen preview of HTML code
• Wizards to guide inserting tables, links, images, audio etc.

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• There are WYSIWYG Open alternatives, some of which work perfectly as an Open version of Dreamweaver, but the only suggestion I would have is that Bluefish add a WYSIWYG tab, e.g. code/visual.

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• Maybe I could list a con if my use of it was more diverse and consistent. It does everything and more for my purposes, and in ways I Iike very much.

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As with most GNU GPL products support is top-notch. Documentation is fantastic, all functions are documented. Also, this product has been around for more than a decade so there is lots of stuff on how to do this or that with this tool. The only thing holding you back from support is your own drive to find a solution. RTFM, my friend.

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BBEdit is fantastic but it costs money. Frankly, BBEdit is not worth paying for. All you are doing is paying old software and I have a problem asking people to do that. Also, BBEdit is limited to the small Mac Universe. Likewise, Notepadd++ is only found on Windows but I much better than BBEdit. Finally, there is Atom. I like Atom a bunch because it has a lot more functionality than BlueFish. Atom is a better code editor than BlueFish. Also, the Atom interface is a bit confusing to the new user.

Incentivized

• How can you go wrong with a GNU GPL product that works? That's a really low-risk proposition.
• It is only returns. It is like 0% investment to 5,000% return.
• The only negative you will have with this product are those Cretans that despise OSS and the willfully ignorant.

Incentivized

• This editor certainly saves time in reducing my need to know and/or check coding minutiae.

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