vscode-json icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
vscode-json copied to clipboard

The usage shown in the video that plays on this extension's store page, "Beautify File", does not appear to exist in the extension

Open andrewbgross opened this issue 6 months ago • 0 comments

vscode-json version: 1.5.2 vscode version: Version: 1.101.0-insider OS version: Windows 11 Pro 24H2 26100.4349

The animation that plays on vscode-json's home page shows the user accessing the command palate and typing "vscode-json: bea", and some options come up, one of which is "Beautify file", which the user selects.

No such command appears to exist in the extension. I've tried multiple variations, including just "bea", "beautify file", "vscode-json: beautify file", etc. When using the extension's "Keybindings" menu item, there is no entry for "Beautify File" that a user could bind to a key.

I'm trying to use this extension to beautify a 650+MB file, which it may simply be incapable of. But it's not giving me an error message. When I select all of the text, it doesn't highlight all of the text (or at least, not within a few minutes of selecting it), but the count of selected lines is correct. Then when I just run vscode-json: Beautify, nothing happens (again, at least within the first few minutes). When I highlight just a few lines and run Beutify on that, it doesn't have any effect, either. This is why I was hoping to use the Beautify File option.

If it makes any difference, I believe the file is correctly indented everywhere, so I was really only hoping to get the color-coding.

As an aside: the text for usage on the same page uses CMD, which does not exist on windows. The Keybindings correctly use CTRL so it's not a big deal; I just thought I'd point it out in passing.

andrewbgross avatar Jun 13 '25 15:06 andrewbgross