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Bluefish Editor vs HippoEDIT

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

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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HippoEDIT

HippoEDIT

Development

HippoEDIT is a lightweight yet powerful text and code editor for Windows. It has syntax highlighting for many programming languages and includes tools for search/replace, manipulating text, macros and more. It aims to provide functionality similar to more complex IDEs in a fast, no-frills application.

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