Sublime Text 2: Error trying to parse settings

Question

How do I fix this error?

Error trying to parse settings: No data in ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/User/JavaScript.sublime-settin

Answer 1

Sublime Text 3 (Build 3059):

My JSON.sublime-settings was containing some XML-structure, no JSON.

Here the previous content of my file:

    name
    JSON String
    scope
    meta.structure.dictionary.json string.quoted.double.json
    settings
    
        foreground
        #E6DB74
    

I replaced it with the default content from SublimePrettyJson:

{
    "use_entire_file_if_no_selection" : true,
    "indent" : 2,
    "sort_keys" : false,
    "ensure_ascii" : false
}

This solved the problem for me. No more annoying error message. OS: Windows 7.

On my Ubuntu machines I never had this error, also not on my Mac.