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When editing text to insert in #LibreOffice, I often need two features:
* removing line returns
* converting straight quotes to curly quotes
Not many plain text editors do this. TextEdit did, then it became #BBEdit.
After umpteen tries, I gave up on the latter feature in LibreOffice. Nothing worked. I never found the first feature, either.
Are there any other plain-text editors that do these two features? (Just in case BBEdit takes these features away and stuffs them in the pro edition.)
This may be irrelevant to your purpose, but could you use a dual-pane markdown editor (like Ghostwriter) that previews text in html (changing straight quotes to curly, among other things)? It's simple to copy/paste from the html pane in Ghostwriter to a LibreOffice document (at least it works fine when I try it with Abiword). I use the Linux version but it comes in Windows.
@malanrich
I use Joplin, which I like a lot, and it does the html preview, but doesn't change straight quotes to curly. So Ghostwriter does that? Interesting feature. Thanks for the tip.
I only know of Linux editors that do what you want with the quotes. Ghostwriter does, and probably Retext, and Geany. Some editors have a special setting toggle for changing straight quotes to curly. Joplin might have that.
@malanrich
BBEdit will do it, so for now I'm good, but if they lock it down, I'm stuck. Thanks for the suggestions.