Editra vs Bluefish

Editra's small size makes it extremely fast and portable. It can be uploaded in a USB drive and be used on the go.

Editra can open more than 60 different types of source code, each with syntax highlighting and many other features. It also has many widgets that can be installed to make the user experience easier (you can download them from the main site).

Editra can run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Its sources are easily available from the site.

Editra has a simple and very customizable UI.

It's written in Python and can also be used as a Python IDE. Just by extending it through the installation of additional features and widgets, Editra can become an IDE for any programming language it supports.

Bluefish supports Perl Compatible regular expressions, sub-pattern replacing, and search and replace in files on disk

Bluefish starts really quick (even on a netbook) and loads hundreds of files within seconds.

Bluefish highlights matching blocks for start and end markers (for both brackets and tags).

Support Emmet or Zen Coding.

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.