Hi all. I'm afriad I don't have time to maintain this project any more. I see the issues mounting but I don't have time to answer them. This was a pet project some time ago and I still use the plugin daily and it works just fine for me in it's current form. If anyone would like to step forward and be added a contributor to move it forward, please send me a message.
Duncan
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/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).
To keep quickview fast the priview is limited in its number of shown bytes. The default value is 100kB.
defaults write com.whomwah.quicklookstephen maxFileSize 102400
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 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)