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Zudn
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When editing text to insert in , 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 .

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.)

malanrich
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@zudn

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.

Zudn
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@malanrich
Ghostwriter isn't available for Mac?

malanrich

@zudn

I only see Windows and Linux versions of Ghostwriter. But there are a lot of editors for those platforms and Mac too. It's a matter of trying whether one does the curly quotes (not so attractive if you have to pay for a test-drive).