QLStephen is a QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. Files like:
README
INSTALL
Capfile
CHANGELOG
etc...
- Download the latest version of QuickLookStephen
- Unzip
- Copy the file into
/Library/QuickLook
or~/Library/QuickLook
(You can create theQuickLook
folder if it doesn’t exist)
Compliling the project yourself? Just copy the generated QLStephen.qlgenerator
file into the relevant QuickLook
folder (as above).
If you’ve installed the plugin, but don’t see any changes:
- Make sure you are editing (a) the correct plist of (b) the correct bundle.
(For example, you might have two
QLStephen
plugins. It’s possible the plugin in another directory—perhaps/Library/QuickLook/
—is what is being read.) - Run
qlmanage -r
in the Terminal. (This will restart QuickLook, which reloads all plugins.)
Because I was listening to Adam and Joe when I first wrote it.
Original author: Duncan Robertson
Special thanks to the following people for submitting patches over the years:
- Fork the project
- Send a pull request
- Don’t change the build number (I’ll do that when I release a new version)