<s>
Bluefish	B-Application
is	O
a	O
free	B-License
and	I-License
open-source	I-License
software	I-License
advanced	O
text	B-Application
editor	I-Application
with	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
tools	O
for	O
programming	O
and	O
website	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
supports	O
coding	O
languages	O
including	O
HTML	B-Language
,	O
XHTML	B-Language
,	O
CSS	B-Language
,	O
XML	B-Protocol
,	O
PHP	B-Application
,	O
C	B-Language
,	O
C++	B-Language
,	O
JavaScript	B-Language
,	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
Go	B-Application
,	O
Vala	B-Language
,	O
Ada	B-Language
,	O
D	B-Application
,	O
SQL	B-Language
,	O
Perl	B-Language
,	O
ColdFusion	B-Language
,	O
JSP	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
Ruby	B-Language
,	O
and	O
shell	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
available	O
for	O
many	O
platforms	O
,	O
including	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
macOS	B-Application
and	O
Windows	B-Application
,	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
via	O
integration	O
with	O
GNOME	B-Application
or	O
run	O
as	O
a	O
stand-alone	O
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Designed	O
as	O
a	O
compromise	O
between	O
plain	O
text	B-Application
editors	I-Application
and	O
full	O
programming	O
IDEs	B-Application
,	O
Bluefish	B-Application
is	O
lightweight	O
,	O
fast	O
and	O
easy	O
to	O
learn	O
,	O
while	O
providing	O
many	O
IDE	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bluefish	B-Application
's	O
wizards	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
assist	O
in	O
task	O
completion	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
other	O
features	O
include	O
syntax	O
highlighting	O
,	O
auto-completion	O
,	O
code	B-Application
folding	I-Application
,	O
auto-recovery	O
,	O
upload/download	O
functionality	O
,	O
a	O
code-aware	O
spell-checker	O
,	O
a	O
Unicode	O
character	O
browser	O
,	O
code	O
navigation	O
,	O
and	O
bookmarks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Zencoding/emmet	B-Application
is	O
supported	O
for	O
web	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bluefish	B-Application
is	O
extensible	O
via	O
plugins	O
and	O
scripts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bluefish	B-Application
was	O
started	O
by	O
Chris	O
Mazuc	O
and	O
Olivier	O
Sessink	O
in	O
1997	O
to	O
facilitate	O
web	O
development	O
professionals	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
desktop	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
Bluefish	B-Application
was	O
chosen	O
after	O
a	O
logo	O
(	O
a	O
child	O
's	O
drawing	O
of	O
a	O
blue	O
fish	O
)	O
was	O
proposed	O
on	O
its	O
mailing	O
list	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bluefish	B-Application
is	O
written	O
in	O
C	B-Language
and	O
uses	O
the	O
cross-platform	B-Operating_System
GTK	B-Application
library	O
for	O
its	O
GUI	O
widgets	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Markup	O
and	O
programming	O
language	O
support	O
is	O
defined	O
in	O
XML	B-Protocol
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bluefish	B-Application
has	O
a	O
plugin	O
API	O
in	O
C	B-Language
,	O
but	O
it	O
has	O
been	O
used	O
mainly	O
to	O
separate	O
non-maintained	O
parts	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
infobrowser-plugin	O
)	O
from	O
maintained	O
parts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
few	O
Python	B-Language
plugins	O
exist	O
as	O
well	O
,	O
but	O
they	O
need	O
a	O
C	B-Language
plugin	O
to	O
interact	O
with	O
the	O
main	O
program	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bluefish	B-Application
also	O
supports	O
very	O
loosely	O
coupled	O
plugins	O
:	O
external	O
scripts	O
that	O
read	O
standard	O
input	O
and	O
return	O
their	O
results	O
via	O
standard	O
output	O
can	O
be	O
configured	O
by	O
the	O
user	O
in	O
the	O
preferences	O
panel	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Both	O
llvm	B-Application
and	O
GCC	B-Application
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
compile	O
Bluefish	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
Windows	B-Application
,	O
MinGW	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
build	O
the	O
binaries	O
.	O
</s>
