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**zenebord** · November 21, 2017, 8:21pm

I know that it’s wrong to have a \n character inside a JSON value, but I really need to be able to “ignore” those kind of errors. I’ve just updated Sublime Text to 3.0 3143 and as soon as I opened a JSON file I noticed the new error highlighting for those cases. With my previous Sublime Text version I did not have any of that.

I tried installing SublimeLinter and the sublimelinter-json plugin, but I see no option to ignore that.

Can I disable the \n checking in JSON files somehow?

Thanks!

**wbond** · November 21, 2017, 8:37pm

Unfortunately not.

You’d have to copy the JSON syntax definition, name it something else, and remove the match for \n that sets the invalid.illegal scope name.

**FichteFoll** · November 21, 2017, 11:29pm

You could also exclude invalid.illegal.unclosed-string.json from your color scheme’s invalid selector, but that will still leave the following lines in read since the tokenizer (correctly, imo) terminates the string context at this point.

I suggest making a custom syntax based on the default JSON one, as suggestes by wbond.

**zenebord** · November 22, 2017, 12:47am

I see. And where’s that syntax definition so as to create a new one? I’m kind of new to tinkering with sublime

**kingkeith** · November 22, 2017, 7:38am

github.com

sublimehq/Packages/blob/master/JavaScript/JSON.sublime-syntax

%YAML 1.2
---
name: JSON
file_extensions:
  - json
  - sublime-settings
  - sublime-menu
  - sublime-keymap
  - sublime-mousemap
  - sublime-theme
  - sublime-build
  - sublime-project
  - sublime-completions
  - sublime-commands
  - sublime-macro
  - sublime-color-scheme
  - ipynb
  - Pipfile.lock
scope: source.json
contexts:

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**zenebord** · November 22, 2017, 3:46pm

Excellent, I see the line to remove would be:

match: $\n?
scope: invalid.illegal.unclosed-string.json
pop: true

Now, where do I do this? I’m on Ubuntu and installed this via the package manager.

Thanks.

**wbond** · November 22, 2017, 3:47pm

Create a copy of the file in your Packages/User/ dir and give a name like JSON (Custom).sublime-syntax.

**zenebord** · November 22, 2017, 4:29pm

Thanks!! Solved!!

JSON Syntax Highlighting newlines as errors