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I use json.tool a lot to format JSON directly in vim. Simply highlight the text you want to format and run :!python3 -m json.tool. There are probably plugins to do this too, but doing it this way is probably the simplest, unless vim has a built-in for it.
Yeah, I knew someone was going to say that. Usually it’s more likely that Python is installed than jq - especially on servers. But yes, that would definitely work too.
Sure, I’m just not sure when I’d ever run into that. Either I’m doing it a lot and installing jq is reasonable, or I’m not allowed on the server anyway and need to copy/paste from logs.
I used to use python -m json.tool a lot, but I haven’t needed to in many years.
I use
json.toola lot to format JSON directly in vim. Simply highlight the text you want to format and run:!python3 -m json.tool. There are probably plugins to do this too, but doing it this way is probably the simplest, unless vim has a built-in for it.Could probably do the same with
:! jq .It’s a bit shorter.Yeah, I knew someone was going to say that. Usually it’s more likely that Python is installed than jq - especially on servers. But yes, that would definitely work too.
Sure, I’m just not sure when I’d ever run into that. Either I’m doing it a lot and installing
jqis reasonable, or I’m not allowed on the server anyway and need to copy/paste from logs.I used to use
python -m json.toola lot, but I haven’t needed to in many years.