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Given how much Amiga users I knew in the past gushed about their allegedly stellar GoldEd and CygnusEd, I'm quite surprised that this uses Lite.
by mhd 3y ago
Given how much Amiga users I knew in the past gushed about their allegedly stellar GoldEd and CygnusEd, I'm quite surprised that this uses Lite.
- throwaway92753 3y agoCygnusEd was first released in 1987. I don't think it's fair to compare with a modern editor that was released 30+ years later. I have not used either [1], but their choice was based on what was available at the time. Edit: [1] Actually I did use CygnusEd for simple text editing, but I was not into programming at the time. I don't have a basis to compare it to modern editors, other than the knowledge that choices needs to be seen in the proper context.
- mark_round 3y agoCygnusEd was the absolute business back in the day. I still love it, but my muscle memory just isn't there anymore after years of PC/Mac editors! I guess I've also become too spoiled by modern conveniences. LiteXL runs on pretty much anything and writing extensions is also pretty easy. But maybe I should get back into the habit of using CygnusEd some more...
- unwind 3y agoI was old enough back then that I remember actually paying for the shareware version of FrexxEd [1]. I just learned from that page that it's open source now, cool! [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/opensource.html https://daniel.haxx.se/opensource.html (yes, by the author of curl).
- vidarh 3y agoFrexxEd is beautiful, and scripted with C-like programming language (FPL), or Arexx, and it has fun features such as giving access to the buffers of your running instance via a filesystem, so you can e.g. call the compiler directly on your open buffers (a lot more useful on a limited RAM system with floppies, granted)
- Thorham 3y agoYes, FrexxEd is great. I've done quite a bit of work on the source code to extend it a little, and have overhauled the scripts also.