CygnusEd is a

text editor A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be ...

for the Amiga OS and

MorphOS MorphOS is an AmigaOS-like computer operating system (OS). It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC (PPC) processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale dev ...

. It was first developed in 1986-1987 by Bruce Dawson, Colin Fox and Steve LaRocque who were working for CygnusSoft Software.Vesalia Computer - CygnusEd 5
/ref> It was the first Amiga text editor with an undo/redo feature and one of the first Amiga programs that had an

AREXX ARexx is an implementation of the Rexx language for the Amiga, written in 1987 by William S. Hawes, with a number of Amiga-specific features beyond standard REXX facilities. Like most REXX implementations, ARexx is an interpreted language. Program ...

scripting port by which it was possible to integrate the editor with AREXX enabled C compilers and build a semi-

integrated development environment An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools ...

. 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. It remained popular even after

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's bankruptcy in 1994. In 1997 version 4 was developed by Olaf Barthel and was ported to MorphOS by

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in 2000 and made available for users having the original CygnusED 4 CDROM.CygnusEd Professional 4.21 for MorphOS
/ref> In 2007 version 5 was finished by Olaf Barthel again, which runs natively on AmigaOS 2 and

AmigaOS 4 AmigaOS 4 (abbreviated as OS4 or AOS4) is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code developed by Commodore, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partne ...

.Official Support Forum
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