CygnusEd

CygnusEd is a text editor for the Amiga OS and MorphOS. It was first developed in 1986-1987 by Bruce Dawson, Colin Fox and Steve LaRocque who were working for CygnusSoft Software.[1] It was the first Amiga text editor with an undo/redo feature[1] and one of the first Amiga programs that had an AREXX scripting port by which it was possible to integrate the editor with AREXX enabled C compilers and build a semi-integrated development environment. Many Amiga programmers grew up with CygnusEd and a considerable part of the Amiga software library was created with CygnusEd.[1] It is still one of very few text editors that support jerkyless soft scrolling.

CygnusEd Professional
Developer(s)Bruce Dawson, Olaf Barthel
Initial release1987 (1987)
Stable release
5.60 / September 20, 2010 (2010-09-20)
Operating systemAmigaOS, MorphOS
TypeText editor
LicenseClosed source
Websitewww.cygnused.de/index-en.php

It remained popular even after Commodore's bankruptcy in 1994. In 1997 version 4 was developed by Olaf Barthel and was ported to MorphOS by Ralph Schmidt in 2000 and made available for users having the original CygnusED 4 CDROM.[2][3] In 2007 version 5 was finished by Olaf Barthel again, which runs natively on AmigaOS 2 and AmigaOS 4.[4]


References
  1. Vesalia Computer - CygnusEd 5
  2. CygnusEd Professional 4.21 for MorphOS
  3. "MorphOS? What's that, then?", AmigActive, pp. 14–17, July 2000
  4. Official Support Forum


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