init.el

;; clean this up and 'package it' nicely
(defun beautify-json ()
  "taken from jstevenco http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/7934783/2"
  (interactive)
  (let ((b (if mark-active (min (point) (mark)) (point-min)))
        (e (if mark-active (max (point) (mark)) (point-max))))
    (shell-command-on-region b e
                             ;; "python -c 'import sys,json; data=json.loads(sys.stdin.read()); print json.dumps(data,sort_keys=True,indent=4).decode(\"unicode_escape\").encode(\"utf8\",\"replace\")'"
                             ;; (current-buffer) t)))
                             "~/bin/jsonfmt" (current-buffer) t)))