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When you have selected a text, source, html file, etc., in Finder and press spacebar, a quick view will come up showing content. When the file extension isn't one that is recognized, it will instead show information like name, extension, file size.. How do I edit how it responds to different file types? Can I make it show content for binary files as if they are text?

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You can install Quick Look plugins by moving them to ~/Library/QuickLook/.

QLStephen adds support for plain text files with arbitrary extensions or without an extension. It also supports some binary formats and executable scripts, but not compiled binaries.

qlcolorcode adds syntax highlighting for source code files.

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  • You can now install QLStephen and more with brew - see github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins for a good list with examples and instructions. Or quick install: brew cask install qlcolorcode qlstephen qlmarkdown quicklook-json qlimagesize suspicious-package quicklookase qlvideo Aug 14, 2020 at 4:31

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