BLUEFISH(1)

NAME
bluefish - a programmer's HTML editor

SYNOPSIS
bluefish [-svh] [-p project_file] [html_files]

DESCRIPTION
Bluefish is a HTML editor designed for the experienced web designer. Its features include nice wizards; a fully featured image insert dialog; thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image; lots of dialogs; a configurable menu; PHP support; WML support; CSS support and more. Bluefish uses the GTK widget set and requires the X Windowing System.

Bluefish refuses to run as root. This can be overridden; see below.

OPTIONS

-s  Disable the check for non-rootness. With this option, bluefish will not refuse to run as root. Please note that you should never use any complex programs as root if you can avoid it.

-v  Show bluefish version number and exit.

-h  Show commandline options and exit

-p FILENAME
    Load FILENAME as project file (usually located in $HOME/.bluefish/projects/ )

BUGS
Yes, there are bugs. Bluefish is under development. For a list of known bugs, see the file BUGS in the source directory, or in /usr/share/doc/bluefish if Bluefish was installed from the Debian package.

FILES
Bluefish files are located in $HOME/.bluefish/ The config file is rcfile. php3_functions, rxml_functions and ssi_functions contain the functions shown by the reference dialog. The files in $HOME/.bluefish/menu/ define the custom menu.

AUTHORS
Bluefish is being written by a team of volunteer programmers lead by Olivier Sessink. This manual page was written by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho.

SEE ALSO
Bluefish website at http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/