Emacs mode to edit JSON

Question

Does anybody know a good Emacs mode to edit JSON? An app I am working on uses a JSON based communication protocol and having the data nicely indented and syntax-highlighted woul

Answer 1

If you want something lightweight try this major-mode I hacked together: https://github.com/joshwnj/json-mode

It's actually no more than some extra syntax highlighting on top of javascript-mode, but for my purposes I've found it to work quite well.

Another common use-case is auto-formatting a JSON file (eg. if it's whitespace-compressed and you want more readability). To do this I'm just piping the buffer through a command-line script: C-u M-|