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What is the simplest RTF editor in linux?

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00:00 What Is The Simplest Rtf Editor In Linux?
00:14 Answer 1 Score 17
00:27 Accepted Answer Score 16
00:36 Answer 3 Score 5
00:45 Answer 4 Score 4
01:02 Answer 5 Score 3
01:15 Thank you

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ANSWER 1

Score 17


Don't forget that wine provides Wordpad by default. First install wine and then type the following in a terminal:

wine wordpad



ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 16


You can try AbiWord.




ANSWER 3

Score 5


LibreOffice Writer can be used on rtf files. You can read more about it here.




ANSWER 4

Score 4


For the CLI use catdoc. Since this is superuser.com I'm assuming you know how to install it. For a GUI approach I know LibreOffice can view .rtf, but I also think Abiword will work.




ANSWER 5

Score 3


Maybe Ted would be an appropriate choice in that case.

However, I am curious as to know what your usecase is for using RTF (instead of, say, HTML with a plain text editor)