Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Q&A

Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Post History

66%
+2 −0
Q&A Remapping backspace with Karabiner Elements

It does look like you have a syntax error in the JSON data. Specifically, you have a comma after the last element of a list on line 11: "from": { "key_code": "delete_or_backspace", <---- he...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

Answer
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Canina‭ · 2021-08-30T19:19:33Z (over 3 years ago)
It does look like you have a syntax error in the JSON data.

Specifically, you have a comma after the last element of a list on line 11:

    "from": {
      "key_code": "delete_or_backspace", <---- here
    },
    "to": [

At least [`jq`](https://github.com/stedolan/jq) (which is a *very* useful tool for doing all kinds of parsing of JSON data) calls that out as an error; when fed what's in your question as input, the output of `jq .` is simply:

> parse error: Expected another key-value pair at line 11, column 11

(In the `jq` query syntax, a bare `.` represents the root element of the input; also, portions of the input matching the query are output. So `jq .` essentially says "print everything from the input".)

I can't try it in the software you're using, but **removing the extraneous `,` at the end of line 11** makes `jq` accept the JSON as valid.