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Emacs 26.1. Windows 10

It's has function json-pretty-print . But it not enough for me. Has any another better json formater and validator? I mean the next.

Suppose I has error on json on line 26. I missed ",". But json-pretty-print get me strange error message:

Json readtable error: 93

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I don't understand this message. What does it mean? Why simple not get message something like this:

Error: Parse error on line 26: ...n1_FR" } ] } "loyalty": true, "u -------------------^ Expecting 'EOF', '}', ',', ']', got 'STRING'

So that is the reason why I need better json validator and formater.

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  • I update my post with explain what I mean "good". Commented Nov 17, 2018 at 13:06

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I'm really curious about why you feel json-pretty-print is not good enough.

Perhaps you don't like needing to call it manually? You could set it to run whenever you save the file:

(add-hook 'json-mode-hook (lambda () (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'json-pretty-print-buffer t t)))

If you'd still like an alternative, I highly recommend prettier-mode. It's a minor mode that runs the file through prettier on save. In circumstances with invalid JSON it does give you diagnostic output (but does not enforce strict JSON AFAIK. For example:

prettier errors: [error] stdin: SyntaxError: Unexpected token, expected "," (4:7) [error] 2 | "foo": { [error] 3 | "bar": "baz" [error] > 4 | "blah": "blooh" [error] | ^ [error] 5 | } [error] 6 | } [error] 7 |
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  • I updated my post. Commented Nov 17, 2018 at 13:07
  • I install prettier-mode. How I can validate json? What is the command for this? Commented Nov 18, 2018 at 10:47
  • Emacs 26.1, Windows 10. Commented Nov 18, 2018 at 18:18

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