LibreOffice 5.3 as a Text Editor?

  • Resolved Robert Eichhorn

    (@robert-eichhorn)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    I realize LibreOffice is not recommended by WP to edit files, only a text editor. When I tried to edit a .htaccess file with LibreOffice 5.3 a message appeared saying,
    “You are about to save the document in a Text-Only format, which will remove all formatting. Are you sure you want to do this?”
    If I click ‘yes’ the .htaccess file will be saved and will remain a ‘HTACCESS File’ type. Can I use LibreOffice 5.3 as a text editor and will the files I edit work the way they are supposed to?

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Please go to their official support channel. In order to be good stewards of the WordPress community, and encourage innovation and progress, we feel it’s important to direct people to those official locations.

    https://www.libreoffice.org

    Forum volunteers are also not given access to commercial products, so they would not know why your commercial theme or plugin is not working properly. This is one other reason why volunteers forward you to the commercial product’s vendors. The vendors are responsible for supporting their commercial product.

    Moderator Yui

    (@fierevere)

    永子

    Its usually recommended to use text editors which support “UTF8 without BOM” encoding, for Unix it can be Vi or Nano (or graphical editors – leafpad, kwrite and many others)
    for Windows we usually recommend:
    Akelpad https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/
    Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

    LibreOffice can support needed plain text format with utf8 without BOM,
    but its easy to mess up settings on save, therefore its not recommended to use “office” word processors.
    Broken .htaccess can lead in Internal error 500 for your site.

    Thread Starter Robert Eichhorn

    (@robert-eichhorn)

    I need to make a correction concerning using LibreOffice 5.3 as a text editor. I have a desktop with Windows and Microsoft Word. I have a laptop with Windows and LibreOffice 5.3 but not Microsoft Word. When I open a .htaccess file on my laptop I can open it with various apps including Notepad and Wordpad. I thought Wordpad was a LibreOffice 5.3 program. Wordpad is actually a Windows app and gave me the message about saving the document in a Text-Only format. One problem is the document is saved with a .txt extension instead of remaining a HTACCESS FILE type.

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