bluefish(1)

bluefish1

Editor for experienced web designers and programmers

Usage

bluefish [{[{-c | --curwindow}] | [{-n | --newwindow}]}] [FILE(S) ...]

bluefish {[{-? | --help | --help-all | --help-*}] | [{-v | --Version}]}

Overview

bluefish is an open-source editor for experienced web designers and programmers, supporting many programming and markup languages, but focusing on creating dynamic and interactive websites.

Options

bluefish currently supports the following options:

-c, --curwindow

Open a file in an existing window. This can be used to overwrite the chosen default.

-n, --newwindow

Open a file in a new window. This can be used to overwrite the chosen default.

-?, --help, --help-*, --help-all

Print all or just a group of help options. Some of these options may be documented in gtk-options(7) and gnome-options(7).

-v, --Version

Print version information.

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1–4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0–Arch

--Version since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --curwindow since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --newwindow since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -c since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -n since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -v since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

-h until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -p until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -s until Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

Authors

Daniel Leidert <[email protected]>

Author and editor.

Michèle Garoche <[email protected]>

Author.

Davide Puricelli <[email protected]>

Original author of the manpage written for the Debian system.

From bluefish 2.2.19-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.