show-struct VS vis

Compare show-struct vs vis and see what are their differences.

show-struct

Shows possible jq paths in a JSON file (by ilyash)

vis

A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions (by martanne)
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show-struct vis
2 56
124 4,160
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0.0 8.2
8 months ago 4 days ago
Python C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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show-struct

Posts with mentions or reviews of show-struct. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-14.
  • Tell ONE terminal app you use everyday but no one seems know about the app
    30 projects | /r/commandline | 14 Feb 2022
    Of many JSON linters, formatters, I have not see one that provides a quick, human readable map/structure of your JSON data except show-struct .
  • Way to organize / catalogue / consolidate 40 drives logically
    2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 15 Jun 2021
    Some hint on flattening JSON tree here: https://til.simonwillison.net/jq/flatten-nested-json-objects-jq Of course, you could use the hierarchical format if you are comfortable navigating it in jq. This is a tool to dump the structure of json files as seen by jq. Use python not python3 to run. https://github.com/ilyash/show-struct tree and cat-cli structure is similar but uses different names for some of the fields. cat-cli database includes an md5 hash, tree's does not.

vis

Posts with mentions or reviews of vis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing show-struct and vis you can also consider the following projects:

csv.vim - A Filetype plugin for csv files

kakoune - mawww's experiment for a better code editor

tdrop - A Glorified WM-Independent Dropdown Creator

micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

sydent - Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server

nextvi - Next version of neatvi (a small vi/ex editor) for editing bidirectional UTF-8 text

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

vim-visual-multi - Multiple cursors plugin for vim/neovim

mani - :robot: CLI tool to help you manage repositories

mle - flexible terminal-based text editor (C)

pipe-viewer - A lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key.

nvim-select-multi-line - Neovim plugin. select multiple lines that are not adjacent.