Any news/updates on this? Thanks.
Alfredo On Friday, January 10, 2020 at 9:13:35 PM UTC-7 Matthew Dahlman wrote: > I'd like to be able to preview all text files using QuickLook in Finder. > Functionally, this means I could hit <space> and get a useful preview of a > file in the popup window that appears. Likewise, the same preview behavior > is visible when you bring up file info by right-clicking in the Finder and > selecting "Get Info". > > Does anyone know if there is a way to force all files associated with > BBEdit to have a useful text preview? > > Here's the current behavior that I see. > Notice that both files are associated with BBEdit. This is good. > But the file on the left, with the extension "semkey", has what I call a > non-useful preview. > The file on the right, with the extension "yaml", has a useful preview. > > Previously I had a non-useful preview for *both* filetypes. I installed > QLStephen > <https://superuser.com/questions/230204/make-os-xs-quick-look-work-for-custom-file-extensions> > > to attempt to solve this. It seems that later MacOS releases like Catalina > have tightened security such that QLStephen doesn't work "out of the box" > as easily as it did in the past. Installing it was not sufficient. But > manually adding <string>public.yaml</string> in the relevant place in > the Info.plist file solves the problem for .yaml files. Hooray! > > But manually adding <string>public.semkey</string> in the relevant place > does nothing to help with my non-standard .semkey extension. Presumably > this is because "semkey" is not a thing in the way that "yaml" is > registered as a thing. There's an important lack of precision in that last > sentence... but I lack the relevant knowledge to make it better. > > So getting back to the initial question, are other BBEdit users able to > preview all of their text files in a useful way? > Because the file "Kind" is "BBEdit.app Document", it seems reasonable that > perhaps BBEdit can facilitate the preview. No? > > Thanks for any advice, > Matt > > > [image: Screen Shot 2020-01-10 at 3.59.23 PM.png] > > > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/197507e1-d344-48ec-896f-227d1c08c6e6n%40googlegroups.com.
