Assuming the box you are working on actually has the capability to run openoffice... I regularly fix things on command line only boxes (eg on linux via ssh without an X install)
Mvgr, Martin
Albeit, since the editor is free, open source, and multi-platform, expecting maintainers to use this tool is not much different than expecting committers to use Subversion, or Ant, or Maven, or Forrest, or Java, or any of the other free tools that we use. -Ted.
