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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Except if it's a single line file, only god can help you then. (Or running prettier -w on it before opening it or whatever.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

cat file.json | jq also works

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award#cat

jq < file.json

cat is for concatenating multiple files, not redirecting single files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Render Media works the best

rm file.json

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yes, Render Media is the best. It's hard to believe that not many people know about this tool. It's also natively installed in all Linux distros.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

4.2 megs on one line? Vim probably can handle it fine, although syntax won't be highlighted past a certain point

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've accidentally opened enormous single line json files more than once. Could be lsp config or treesitter or any number of things but trying to do any operations after opening such a file is not a good time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, very well may be. LSPs always slow down opening big files, so I usually inspect those with an empty/different config

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Technically every JSON file is a single line, with line break characters here and there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

:syntax off and it works just fine.