How to fix JSON indentation in vim?
Easier way is to just external command as a filter for a selection. e.g.
- Make a selection
- Type
:!python -m json.tool
romainl recommendation is the preferred way, but sometimes you need to pretty indent JSON text inside some buffer that doesn't have the json filetype. I use this nice command:
command! -range -nargs=0 -bar JsonTool <line1>,<line2>!python -m json.toolJust run :JsonTool and it will pretty print the current line. It can take a range as well:
:JsonTool:'<,'>JsonTool:10,25JsonToolIf you do not have python or prefer a pure vim solution you may be interested in Tim Pope's jdaddy plugin. Jdaddy provides JSON text objects: aj and ij as well as print print JSON formatting, e.g. gqaj.
You can send to an external tool, as an example, if you have python you can send the content to python's json tool using:
:%!python -m json.tool