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Add to SafariWhen comparing Bluefish vs jEdit, the Slant community recommends Bluefish for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” Bluefish is ranked 43rd while jEdit is ranked 63rd. 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
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Pros
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.
Pro Syntax highlighting
JEdit offers syntax highlighting for several languages.
Pro Plugin support
JEdit has lots of plugins that help you customize the editor to your liking. The plugins are easy to download (once you select a mirror) and take effect right away, without a restart.
Pro Cross-platform
jEdit runs on Linux, OS X and Windows.
Cons
Con Depends on Java
Because jEdit requires Java to be installed on the OS, it's not suitable for those who don't want Java.
