[Mozilla Enterprise] JSON formatting
Paul Kosinski
mozilla at iment.com
Sat Sep 7 16:06:33 UTC 2019
Since JSON files are becoming *the* way to pre-configure Firefox on
Linux, it is important to be able to keep them in a readable format.
Currently, it seems that they are stored as one line files with very,
very, very long lines. This format, although having a simple and
unambiguous syntax, is basically unreadable by humans.
Fortunately, I recently discovered that emacs (my favorite editor due
to its file management capabilities among other things) has 2 commands
to make JSON readable, giving it sensible indentation and line breaks:
json-pretty-print Pretty-print selected region.
json-pretty-print-buffer Pretty-print current buffer.
They are invoked as usual for emacs, e.g.:
M-x json-pretty-print-buffer RET
(Where M-x is the Alt-x key combinaton in most configurations, and
RET is the Enter key on PC-style keyboards.)
Hope this helps.
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