Any plans for an edit_positron_settings() function for examining/editing Positron's settings.json?

[davidkane9]

Hello! usethis is a great package! Functions like edit_r_profile() are wonderful, both for advanced users and for new students.

Are there any plans to add a function like edit_positron_settings() for examining/editing the settings.json file which controls Positron? I (and my students) would definitely use this, if it were available.

[jennybc]

The new use_air() function (#2109) crosses this Rubicon, so yes I can imagine this happening. But that PR also surfaced a pretty big problem which is that jsonlite is currently not set up to help edit JSONC:

#2109 (comment)

I don't think we can really dig in to editing this file without such a capability.

jeroen/jsonlite#394

[jennybc]

Another feature of real .vscode/settings.json files that are at least tolerated by VS Code and Positron is trailing commas. So that is another thing that would be appealing in a very lenient JSON parser, in addition to comment support.

I'm talking about the comma after "Posit.air-vscode" here:

{
    "[r]": {
        "editor.formatOnSave": true,
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "Posit.air-vscode",
    },
    "[quarto]": {
        "editor.formatOnSave": true,
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "quarto.quarto"
    }
}

I had the above (by accident, actually) and saw this when playing around with use_air():

use_air()
#> Error in parse_con(txt, bigint_as_char): parse error: invalid object key (must be a string)
#>           er": "Posit.air-vscode",     },     "[quarto]": {         "e
#>                      (right here) ------^

It's not a great error.