Bluefish Editor is a powerful, open source software application designed for web developers and programmers. It provides a comprehensive development environment for creating websites, web applications, and other interactive projects. It supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, PHP, and other popular web development languages and frameworks. Bluefish Editor is designed to be user-friendly and fast, allowing developers to quickly create, edit, and debug their projects. Features include syntax highlighting, auto-completion of tags and attributes, spell-checking, and a built-in FTP client. It also includes a powerful search and replace feature, which allows users to quickly find and replace text across multiple documents. Bluefish Editor is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
It is not only an alternative application, but also supports several programming languages, including web development and nice color schemes for the text editor such as Monokai and Bespin.