Bluefish - anyone uses it?

Giaguara

Giaguara

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Does anyone use Bluefish ? I can't find the compiling instructions for OS X :confused:

I guess i still prefer bbedit but i'd enjoy trying.. i'm just too lazy to guess what are all the packages i need and how to compile them... :(
 
Just in case someone else wants to try...

To install bluefish from source:

1) get the required libraries, you need the development packages!
- libgtk+-2
- libpcre
2) run ./configure --help
for information about possible options
choose the options you like most

3) now compile the thing
./configure [options-you-like-most-here]
make

3) now install everything
make install

:)
 
I installed bluefish from the fink commander... Just selected it and told it to install from binary... It was quick & easy, but after installing, I found a lot of difficulty in editing files because of the line-breaks weren't translated (hence everythihng was run together) and I couldn't figure out the commands needed to preview using IE or another browser. Another thing I want is to re-map my apple and control keys.

After I found TacoHTMLedit, I decided to stick with it for now (despite the gross icon). I'm still on the fence with BlueFish, since those problems I had probably have solutions, and TacoHTMLedit doesn't support any regexpressions or escaped characters in its find and replace, which is a major time saver, as you would know from using BBEdit. I have hopes for a more Mac friendly BlueFish in the near future, or a set of how-to's to make it more mac-friendly.
 
Uh... the source didn't want to get compiled because I didn't have pkg-config. Now trying to install pkg-config I get errors ... :(
 
Giaguara, do you have fink commander? It can get and install all the stuff you need from source.
 
No. I couldn't install Fink. It complained I had /sw directory - so I should have had a look on the readme file for updateing info. I did not have Fink commander (I had had it but I've formatted after) nor did find alternative installation method. So, X11 .. But I need Bluefish or something similar, and I want if from source. What is the problem with pkg-config?

make all-recursive
Making all in glib-1.2.8
make all-recursive
Making all in .
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=g_log_domain_glib -g -O2 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -c giounix.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=g_log_domain_glib -g -O2 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -c giounix.c -o giounix.o
giounix.c:233: only 1 arg to macro 'g_warning' (2 expected)
cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in basic mode
make[4]: *** [giounix.lo] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
[lozen@mac /Applications/bluefish-gtk2-0.8/p
Click to expand...

:confused:
 
Unless you are using the /sw folder for an app that you somehow installed previously via fink/fink commander, it would be ok to delete it, as it contains only fink-installed stuff. There's no harm in getting rid of it from what I have read. Then you could install fink/commander and go by the commands there.

I'm only advising this because fink worked fine for me, but I dont know the first thing about pkg-config.
 
The sw folder contains lib that has libcrypto.0.9.6.dylib libcurl.2.dylib libssl.0.9.6.dylib
libcurl.2.0.2.dylib libdl.0.dylib in it .. and those are surely not installed by fink. Right now I'd just like to know how to make install of pkg-config, I can't figure what it wants.. :(
 
For what it's worth, if you like bluefish, you might also like skHTML from www.skti.org, except that it's not opensource nor free, but it is cocoa.
 
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