Bat: Syntax highlighting for JSON

[avdv]

I am using version 0.2.2 on Linux and apparently bat does not colorize .json files.

[fpietka]

Are you sure that is the case?

I mean, I tried and thought the same. But when I open json in Sublime, curly braces and brackets are white and the text is a light grey. I took a close look and it is working the same way with bat.

Hope that helps

[avdv]

Thanks, you're right. I see that at least true gets highlighted in blue color in a JSON file. So, basically this is a bad color scheme...

Renaming the file from .json to .js looks a lot better.

Why not use the same highlighting for JSON, being a subset of ECMAScript anyway?

[sharkdp]

Why not use the same highlighting for JSON, being a subset of ECMAScript anyway?

Not sure if this is the only reason, but you might want to highlight syntax-errors in a particular way.

If you really want this, you can use bat --language javascript .. starting with the next version.

So, basically this is a bad color scheme...

It could also be the combination of color scheme and language definition.

If anybody knows how to improve this, I'd be glad to know.

[sharkdp]

This really depends on the syntax highlighting theme. The next version of bat will ship with a few themes to choose from. Here is TwoDark, for example:

[jcousins-ynap]

Was this language definition shipped?
JSON files do not seem to be highlighted in 0.12.1.

[sharkdp]

@jcousins-ynap As described above, the JSON syntax was always shipped. It's just the highlighting theme that causes problems. Please try a different one. If there are remaining problems, please open a new ticket.