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Basic Notepad vs Bluefish Editor

A side-by-side look at Basic Notepad and Bluefish Editor. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Basic Notepad

Basic Notepad

Office & Productivity

Basic Notepad is a simple text editor for Windows that allows users to open, edit, and save plain text documents. It has basic formatting functions like font and text size changes. Useful for quickly taking notes or writing short documents.

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Bluefish Editor

Bluefish Editor

Development

Bluefish Editor is a free, open source text editor aimed primarily at programmers and webdevelopers. It has support for many programming languages and markup languages, and has many features useful for coding like syntax highlighting, code folding and snippets.

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