Created attachment 146046 [details]
When Selecting Calc in "Open with" Dialog in W10, txt files open in Writer. If I predefine Calc as program to open txt files, they open in Writer

Before 6.1 rolled around I frequently used Calc to open tabulated txt files to manipulate and convert them into either .ods files or even .xlxs files. The options in Calc on how to split txt files.

Starting with 6.1 even if I expressly try to define Calc to open .txt files as the predefined program, .txt files will ALWAYS open in Writer.
This is extremely frustrating since I use several programs in my workflow (bioinformatics) that output tabulated .txt files (not csv, not .tab) and starting with 6.1 I can't open them on my preferred tool to sort the tabulated files, which is Calc.

Arguably the only thing in which Calc shines over Excel is in the options it gives on how to partition a .txt file when opening it. Now that has been taken away because .txt files are forcibly opened on Writer every freaking time even when I expressly try to force open them with Calc.

There is a workaround, which is to have Calc opened and drop the .txt file on an open instance of Calc, but a new user won't know about this and it breaks with Calc's behaviour from pre-6.1.

Also, Writer should NEVER be pre-defined as the default module to open .txt files in Libre Office. Document formats and text formats ARE DIFFERENT THINGS. The later are used to save scripts, or outputs from software like R or many bioinformatics tools and even code. Why would I want to open it on a document editor? Why is this pre-defined by LibreOffice? Why was previous behaviour broken? Why break something that was working great beforehand???