When comparing EverEdit vs Bluefish, the Slant community recommends Bluefish for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” Bluefish is ranked 43rd while EverEdit is ranked 58th. The most important reason people chose Bluefish is:
Bluefish supports Perl Compatible regular expressions, sub-pattern replacing, and search and replace in files on disk
Specs
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Pros
Pro Lightweight
EverEdit is lightweight, making it very fast.
Pro Extendable with plugins
EverEdit is extremely powerful and extends through various plugins that add a lot of useful features to it.
Pro Good regexp
Pro Very powerful search and replace
Bluefish supports Perl Compatible regular expressions, sub-pattern replacing, and search and replace in files on disk
Pro Light and fast
Bluefish starts really quick (even on a netbook) and loads hundreds of files within seconds.
Pro Highlighting
Bluefish highlights matching blocks for start and end markers (for both brackets and tags).
Pro Emmet support
Support Emmet or Zen Coding.
Pro Auto-completion and auto-tag-closing
Bluefish supports auto-completion and auto-tag-closing for many programming languages, with reference information, and even for nested languages (e.g. css and javascript inside html code that is inside a php document), with included language definition files for: C/C++, CSS, HTML, XHTML, HTML5, Java, JSP, JavaScript, jQuery, Lua, Octave/MATLAB, MediaWiki, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, XML, and others.
Cons
Con Windows only
EverEdit is not available for Linux and/or Mac.