json editor

[pmaura]

Whats a good program for editing json files. Notepad works but is a little unwieldy.

 

[veevoir]

Notepad++

No kidding. An entirely different beast when it comes to editing.

 

[Jade_Rook]

Notepad++

No kidding. An entirely different beast when it comes to editing.

^THIS

Notepad++ works incredibly well.

 

[Lynx7725]

Notepad++ gets the job done.

Don't recommend Word.

 

[Dr. Banzai]

Notepad++ all the way.

 

[TheDarkestStig]

vim

 

[gruese]

Notepad++ is great. You can use jsonlint for validation.

 

[Zark]

I would recommend ATOM, basically the perfect free text editor. It has a bunch of handy compare documents and manage projects features.

https://atom.io/

 

[gruese]

I would recommend ATOM, basically the perfect free text editor. It has a bunch of handy compare documents and manage projects features.

https://atom.io/

I love atom, use it myself. For pure JSON editing, it's fairly heavyweight though.

 

[stjobe]

A few other options beside Notepad++: Atom, VS Code, Sublime Text... Really, any modern text editor will work for editing JSON.

Personally I use Sublime Text (migrated from Notepad++ a few years ago since I love the multi-cursor functionality of Sublime (and Atom has that as well).

 

[widda_aw]

Sublime Text is good!

http://www.sublimetext.com/

 

[Tnarien]

Notepad++ was my weapon of choice for Beta modding shenanigans. It gets the job done, and is incredibly unintrusive.

 

[kvetcha]

NotePad++ and Sublime Text are both excellent.

 

[Leith Maclaine]

Another vote for Notepad++

 

[Jadedfalcon]

Any word on if hired Mechwarrior portraits are still 500 x 500 . PNG ?

 

[Leith Maclaine]

I think a McCain comment on twitter said 256X256. I could be wrong though.

Edit: Nope, comment was about Emblems. Portraits are harder.

 

[mjbroekman]

Notepad++, SublimeText / Atom are all good. Basically anything that doesn't automatically set formatting characters (like Word can do)...

 

[ronhatch]

Really, any modern text editor will work for editing JSON.

Doesn't even have to be modern... it can be an ancient relic:

vim

Vim is my preferred editor these days... but just so we're clear with the OP... yeah, it isn't for you. Stick with Notepad++ and the like.

My first experience with vi and emacs was learning how to exit them if I accidentally edited a file using one of them. Yes, it's something I absolutely needed to know and there is simply no way to figure it out intuitively. Then when I finally bit the bullet and read a book on vi/vim/gvim... So. Much. Power!

Particularly for those of us that are fast touch typists...

 

[pmaura]

Thanks

 

[stjobe]

Vim is my preferred editor these days...

Being an old Unix greybeard, I know vi and its more useful cousin Vim intimately - but as you say, it is not for the faint of heart or the beginner

There's no editor that's faster for text manipulation than vi/Vim in the hands of an experienced user though. The "new" multi-cursor editors come close, but they're still not as fast as the old stand-bys. They are prettier though