Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 6.3

Chapter 6. Editors

Bluefish-1.0.7

Introduction to Bluefish

The Bluefish package contains a powerful X Window System editor designed for web designers, but also suitable as a programmer's editor. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and as such is ideal for editing XML and HTML files.

Package Information

Bluefish Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.10.13 and PCRE-7.6

Optional

GNOME Virtual File System-2.18.1 (for remote files), Aspell-0.60.5 (for spellchecking), libgnomeui-2.18.1, GNOME MIME Data-2.4.3, desktop-file-utils-0.13, and shared-mime-info-0.21

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/bluefish

Installation of Bluefish

Install Bluefish by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Configuring Bluefish

Config Files

~/.bluefish/*

Configuration Information

The directory ~/.bluefish is created by the program when it is first run, and the configuration files are maintained by the program automatically to preserve settings from run to run.

Contents

Installed Program: bluefish
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: /usr/share/bluefish

Short Descriptions

bluefish

is an X Window System editor for markup and programming.

Last updated on 2008-04-09 10:40:36 -0500