Why would you use?

[jasonkuhrt]

I see that emacs comes with json-pretty-print and json-pretty-print-buffer.

[gongo]

@jasonkuhrt

Wow, you're right!

$ diff -u emacs-24.3/lisp/json.el emacs-24.4/lisp/json.el

--- emacs-24.3/lisp/json.el 2013-01-02 05:37:17.000000000 +0900
+++ emacs-24.4/lisp/json.el 2014-03-21 14:34:40.000000000 +0900
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ;;; json.el --- JavaScript Object Notation parser / generator

-;; Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 ;; Author: Edward O'Connor <ted@oconnor.cx>
-;; Version: 1.3
+;; Version: 1.4
 ;; Keywords: convenience

 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@
 ;; 2006-12-29 - XEmacs support, from Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>.
 ;; 2008-02-21 - Installed in GNU Emacs.
 ;; 2011-10-17 - Patch `json-alist-p' and `json-plist-p' to avoid recursion -tzz
+;; 2012-10-25 - Added pretty-printed reformatting -Ryan Crum (ryan@ryancrum.org)

 ;;; Code:

-(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))

(snip)

json-pretty-print and json-pretty-print-buffer was bundled from version 24.4.

Thanks!

[jasonkuhrt]

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