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I asked a similar question on webmasters.stackexchange.com and was directed here.
How do I format code in Bluefish HTML editor? There's auto-indenting, that's easy enough to find. Is there a button I can click after selecting all the text? Because I sure can't seem to find it.
For html files I could find this functionality under Tools -> Filters -> Tidy HTML. Notice that you need HTML Tidy installed1. I personally prefer to also have the file auto-indented: Edit -> Preferences -> External filters -> Tidy XML: |tidy -i|.
Additionally, for xml files you can add a new "Tidy XML" label with corresponding command |tidy -xml -i|.
1 In Gentoo: sudo emerge -v app-text/htmltidy; in Debian, sudo apt-get install tidy; in Fedora, I would guess sudo yum install tidy?
tidy -im file.html in a bash shell, outside of Bluefish. Just mentioning this as the builtin filter gave an error for me.
perltidy as the html tidy tool, requiring it to be installed first, rather than html tidy, which I did already have installed. It does seem to depend on which menu option one is actually invoking; some use tidy, some perltidy(viewing the preferences "external filters" shows which tools need to be used)
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