VIM formatting JSON

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:44:41 +0000

VIM formatting JSON

Have you ever needed to format some gnarly JSON that is unreadable and/or too large to look through? It’s super easy to format it with vim. We can use the popular jq tool - link at the end of this blog post.

Simple Steps to format JSON in VIM

Here is an example with a file called hello.json.

Open a file vim hello.json
Open the file in VIM vim hello.json
We can format with the command :%!jq . -
Save the file :wq

Explanation

All we need is the command :%!jq . -. Let’s break this command down.

Copy Paste with Neovim in WSL

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Copy Paste with Neovim in WSL

Copy (Yank) and Paste doesn’t work in neovim because it cannot access the System Clipboard on WSL - Windows Subsystem Linux. This simple small hack solves this issue. This hack works without having to install X Windows or any other tools.

Update Neovim Official Solution. The solution posted in this blog post works, however, at the time there was no official solution. Now see the official solution using the win32yank binary. I honestly have not tried the solution posted herein for sometime as I no longer have WSL. There maybe a neovim clipboard provider that works and is built in. In the solution provided we create a pair of Unix scripts to act as that provider if you don’t have the win32yank binary.

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VIM formatting JSON

VIM formatting JSON

Simple Steps to format JSON in VIM

Explanation

Copy Paste with Neovim in WSL

Copy Paste with Neovim in WSL