Refs #2333 Editing json / jsonb / MySQL JSON cells showed one long plain text line, and invalid JSON only failed on Submit. The Value panel and the grid's ⇧Enter window now open the IDE's code editor for JSON cells, pretty-printed (big integers and duplicate keys preserved, large values formatted off the main thread) with highlighting, folding and find; validation as you type blocks Apply only for JSON columns; Reformat; Apply of an unchanged value creates no pending edit, and drafts survive opening the window. XML and bytea modes from #2333 remain. Co-authored-by: Inf1mum <8135225+Inf1mum@users.noreply.github.com>
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Opening freqtrade (Python, ~770 files) with warm caches, median of 5 runs:
| OpenIDEA | IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.3 | |
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| Window with the project | 0.9 s | 3.1 s |
| Ready (CPU settled) | 1.1 s | 13.2 s |
| Memory (USS, all processes) | 169 MB | 2011 MB |
| CPU time until ready | 2.4 s | 47.9 s |
| Idle CPU | 4 % of a core | 7 % of a core |
| Quit | 0.3 s | 5.9 s |
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