*ANY* word processing or rich text editor or even usable text editor on F-Droid?

Am looking for a word processor to use via F-Droid. A rich text editor or .odt file writer would be great. So far, there is none. LibreOffice has the LibreOffice Viewer and if you go into ‘experimental mode’, apparently you can edit text. However, they warn it can damage your files if you do use it to edit. I have the latest update and cannot even see text when typing. So this is not a viable option.

Tried Emacs, and it is buggy on F-Droid and not really usable either. Thunderbird or K9 email client crashes when you create long documents. Not fun when writing out longer emails.

Would love to use the mobile device to…write.

The only route seems to be to use a web office program, like NextCloud Collabora, where you have to pay a subscription to host and use the office document application. Or, one of the myriad of on-line writing programs that falls far short of what something like LibreOffice lets you do on a regular computer.

This is surprising as word processing is a fairly basic tool for computers (what our mobiles devices essentially are) and it would be great to have the ability to write and store documents locally on said devices.

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