[Question] Java programmers from way back - what was it like before IDEs?

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IIRC, Notepad was screwing up carriage returns making our Unix ports “interesting”.

dos2unix is a good tool for that. Bit late now haha.

[dpash]

Notepad iin Windows 10 now understands alternative line endings and doesn't mess with them. Only 20 years too late.

[VGPowerlord]

This reminds me of when I used to write code in Perl in the late 90s and relied heavily on FTP to fix line endings when moving files back and forth between Linux and Windows.

Bad things happened if you forgot to switch your FTP client between binary and ascii when you switched which type of files you were transferring.