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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.)
@zudn
Most markdown to html convertors automatically turn straight quotes into curly quotes.
The text editor atom (annoyingly) by default removes trailing blank lines (and trailing line spaces) on save.
@everlastingrocks
Sorry I missed seeing your comment earlier.
BBEdit has the option to remove trailing lines and spaces, I believe, so it probably doesn't do that automatically.
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.
@malanrich
Ghostwriter isn't available for Mac?
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).