Format JSON in emacs
I wrote an elisp function to yank JSON off my clipboard, prettify it, and then return it to my clipboard ready to be pasted wherever.
(defun simpson-pretty-json() "ideal for getting pretty JSON from JSON that is copied from a XHR request" (interactive) (with-temp-buffer (clipboard-yank) (json-pretty-print-buffer) (kill-new (buffer-string)) ) )