Jet is a structural editor for JSON.
I.e. an editor which is aware of the structure of JSON and allows you to manipulate it directly. The document is always in a valid state.
demo.mov
- Structurally sound editing, never outputs invalid JSON.
- Copy/Cut/Paste JSON subtrees
- Subtree folding so you can focus on what's important.
- Transpose values around each other in lists.
- Undo/redo system, everyone makes mistakes
- Save functionality
Press ? to see the key map, which should feel familiar to vim users.
cabal update && cabal install jet# Open a file for editing. Use ctrl-s to save back to the file.
# The edited file is output to stdout even if unsaved.
jet myfile.json
# Using jet in a pipeline for quick in-line edits.
cat myfile.json | jet > result.json- Figure out why vty needs two keystrokes to quit for some reason.
- Allow cut/paste of keys of objects.
- Allow inserting when empty key already exists
- Add search
- Improved visibility around copy/paste with highlighting
- Increment/decrement commands for integers.