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QLStephen

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QLStephen is an Apple OSX QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. It is useful for reading files like:

README
INSTALL
CHANGELOG
Makefile
Rakefile
CapFile

Description from developer:

“These are files that the default QuickLook plugins doesn’t handle. It was built to scratch an itch, as I was finding that quicklook is useful for searching through source before I installed new programs, and the first file I would want to see, the README was the only file I coudn’t. QLStephen solves that.”

More information can be found at http://whomwah.github.com/qlstephen/.

5 Responses to “QLStephen”

  1. GhostLyrics Says:
    September 18th, 2011 at 8:22 am

    Works fine on Lion for me.

  2. Fliesen Says:
    September 22nd, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    Thank you very, very much.

    This works for .srt subtitle files too, which is what i was looking for ever since Lion screwed up my .plist hack within TextEdit.

  3. MacDada Says:
    August 9th, 2012 at 8:36 am

    Works on Mountain Lion too 🙂

  4. BigG Says:
    September 9th, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    Also works on Yosemite. Many thanks.

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