I would also like to know as css does not have a preview when doing a
quicklook on it as well as get info.

- gerald

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:18 AM Alfredo <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]
>>
>>
>>
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