Keep empty lines? about format-json

[johan]

I'd love a cli json formatter doing this too, but it's sadly hard to do without replacing JSON.parse with a full-blown low-level tokenizer/parser that recognizes the context of all newline tuples, and as such a bit beyond the scope of this package.

I'd probably accept a pull request from someone solving the problem, if there's some ingenious way of doing it that I can't think of, though. If you want a slightly less sucky JSON family format that does have comments and doesn't have the immense feature riches of yaml, I can recommend cson, and the cson-cli (its equivalent of format-json, converting/formatting in both directions to/from json).

[tomek-he-him]

Thanks for the response. Now that I think of it, it's not something I need that badly. After all, any JSON I write by hand is in diffy-formatted anyway, and contains grouping empty lines. I only really use format-json for automatically-generated JSON and data – and of course they don't contain any empty lines.