Table of Contents
Bluefish has a large feature set, allowing the user to customize the editing experience in numerous ways. This manual targets the novice user, providing a starting point for mastering Bluefish. However, advanced users will still find this text an excellent reference.
Chapters 1-4 are highly recommended for anyone new to Bluefish. They present general information, installation instructions, and an introduction to the main features of Bluefish.
Chapters 5 and 6 contain a nearly complete feature reference, useful for advanced users interested in customizing Bluefish. Some examples of regular expressions used for find and replace are also included here.
As a reference to the Bluefish developers, or anyone interested in contributing code, chapter 7 contains guidelines for the Bluefish source.
The manual is targeted the end user. Thus, we have tried to use a simple, well-explained approach for the large part of the manual. Some typographic conventions are denoted below.
$ foo -bar | bang -lNote: Do not write the $ character - it's simply identifying the command prompt. For commands requiring root access, the prompt is shown as a #.