CygnusEd

{{Short description|Computer text editing software, launched 1987}}

{{Infobox software

| name = CygnusEd Professional

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| developer = Bruce Dawson, Olaf Barthel

| released = {{Start date and age|1987}}

| latest_release_version = 5.60

| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2010|09|20}}

| operating_system = AmigaOS, MorphOS

| genre = Text editor

| license = Closed source

| website = {{Official URL}}

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CygnusEd is a text editor for the AmigaOS and MorphOS. It was first developed in 1986-1987 by Bruce Dawson, Colin Fox and Steve LaRocque who were working for CygnusSoft Software.[http://www.vesalia.de/e_cygnused.htm Vesalia Computer - CygnusEd 5] It was the first Amiga text editor with an undo/redo feature 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. It is still one of very few text editors that support jerkyless soft scrolling.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}

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.[http://amiga.czex.com/history/10_2ke.html CygnusEd Professional 4.21 for MorphOS]{{Citation | title = MorphOS? What's that, then? | newspaper = AmigActive | pages = 14–17 | date = July 2000 }} In 2007 version 5 was finished by Olaf Barthel again, which runs natively on AmigaOS 2 and AmigaOS 4.[https://www.amigafuture.de/viewforum.php?f=25 Official Support Forum]