QLStephen is a QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. Files like:
README
INSTALL
CapFile
CHANGELOG
etc...
You can also customise the plugin to determine which files it previews. See Customizing white/black lists, below.
- Download the latest version of QuickLookStephen
- Unzip
- Copy the file into
/Library/QuickLookor~/Library/QuickLook(You can create theQuickLookfolder if it doesn’t exist)
Compliling the project yourself? Just copy the generated QLStephen.qlgenerator
file into the relevant QuickLook folder (as above).
Want to change the current behaviour? Just follow the instructions below.
Note:
Plists used here are not same as user defaults, so you won’t find
them in ~/Library/Preferences. Instead, you need to edit the plist
files inside the bundle—in this case, the plugin file:
QLStepehen.qlgenerator.
If you installed the plugin, it should be in ~/Library/QuickLook/.
Plist files:
QLStephenWhiteList.plist: files with these names will always be previewedQLStephenExtensionsBlackList.plist: files with these extensions will never be previewedQLStephenDirectoriesBlackList.plist: files contained by these directories will never be previewed
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
QLStephenplugins. It’s possible the plugin in another directory—perhaps/Library/QuickLook/—is what is being read.) - Run
qlmanage -rin 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:
- Fork the project
- Send a pull request
- Don’t change the build number (I’ll do that when I release a new version)