JSON for newbs - for Adobe Brackets functionality - json

Question

I am completely unfamiliar with JSON. I don't use it on a regular basis so I'm just looking for a quick fix, but as a programmer I'd love some basic understanding also.
I'm using Brackets to edit some content for work, and auto-complete is driving me CRAZY. I hate you auto-complete, I hate you so much. I found a snippet of code at https://github.com/talmand/Brackets-Disable-AutoClose-Tags which is supposed to negate auto-complete when opening a new tag. It does not totally shut off auto-complete - it still tries to complete your closing tag once begun. Intended to be useful but I find it intensely irritating.
I inserted the code into the Preferences File, and in the statement, it seems pretty obvious that all I should need to do is change whenClosing to false, but when I do it, then close and reopen the program so it'll take effect, it tells me that my Preferences File contains invalid JSON. All I changed was the value true to false for whenClosing. I used JSONlint to try and see what's wrong, but JSON is not a familiar language for me. Code is included below.
What am I doing wrong?
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This is the unaltered code that I copied into the file:
"closeTags": { "whenOpening": false, "whenClosing": true, "indentTags": [] }
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And this is the total block that my Preferences File contains, with my edit:
{
"closeBrackets": false,
"debug.showErrorsInStatusBar": true
}
"closeTags": { "whenOpening": false, "whenClosing": false, "indentTags": [] }
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And this is what JSONlint said:
Parse error on line 4:
...InStatusBar": true}"closeTags": { "
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Expecting 'EOF', '}', ',', ']'
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#Shaunak that makes sense! I added the comma though, and got this:

Answer 1

You need a comma after closing bracket.
{
"closeBrackets": false,
"debug.showErrorsInStatusBar": true
}, <<<<<<<<< ----- You need a comma here :)
"closeTags": { "whenOpening": false, "whenClosing": false, "indentTags": [] }
JOSN object properties need to be saperated by a comma. Which is what the JSLint is telling you in that error.
UPDATE
Okay I suspected this, but thought you had only pasted partial code initially. Your preferences.json should actually look like this:
{
"closeBrackets": false,
"debug.showErrorsInStatusBar": true,
"closeTags": { "whenOpening": false, "whenClosing": false, "indentTags":[] }
}
So your problem was that, all preferences need to go in the main {} object. Without that main wrapping {} the JSON is invalid.
In future I recommend https://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ to validate and inspect your JSON strings.