Accelerate your workflow with the Quick Look conveniences that only Peek can deliver: searching, jumping, scroll restoring, syntax highlighting, & more.
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Due to system limitations, Peek is ~NOT~ able to support the following documents, not limited to: plain text (.txt, .text), rich text (.rtf, .rtfd), HTML/XML/web archives (.html, .xml*, .webarchive), TypeScript (.ts), Adobe suite (.pdf), Microsoft Office (.csv, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx), OpenDocument suite (.odt, .ods, .odp), nor any Apple iWork documents (.pages, .numbers, .key).
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• Rich previews of Markdown, TextBundle, PostScript, & .ePDF documents.
• Jump to lines/pages & search documents from Quick Look previews in Finder & other friendly applications.
• Brings popular system keyboard shortcuts to Peek-supplied Quick Look previews: search, jump to line, scroll to end/beginning of a document.
• Supports Github-style Markdown with an optionally generated table of contents:
• Autoload any of 191 HighlightJS languages or 273 PrismJS languages.
• Lazy syntax highlighting, MathJax typesetting, and Mermaid.js diagramming.
• Use absolute and relative local filesystem links.
• MathJax with Tex input (full inline support utilizing a bespoke cmark extension).
• Use a Quick Action to quickly rename a PDF document to an .ePDF document to search or copy text, more easily navigate pages, & preview using Dark mode themes.
• Force click on terms to launch the Look Up functionality.
• Preview sizes from 5KB to 1MB (excluding PDFs & property list files).
• Save and restore scroll positions—continue from where you last left off.
• Syntax highlighting with automatic language detection for the most popular programming languages.
• Customize your preview experience with over 70 different light & dark themes, or customize your style in a CSS stylesheet.
• Optionally include line numbers in source code previews.
• Peek attempts to support previews for the most common file types, including those not currently supported by the system:
• Cartfile, Podfile, .gitignore, .swiftlint.yml, .xcconfig, .swift, .c, .py, and many more.
• Visit Peek's website for the most up-to-date list of compatible files.
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A little overpriced, but easier than open-source
ShieldsPC
Syntax highlighting for quick look is a must-have, but I don't feel good paying $8 USD for it. There are open-source options that are free.
Credit where it's due...
Zen@Work
TO THE DEVELOPER:Speaking as A. a full-time professional software engineer, B. one who used to work for Apple, and C. one who's written QuickLook extensions in the past personally... even I gotta admit: this is pretty pimp, gentlemen. There's an almost surprising level of attention to detail in surprising places. I don't simply mean syntax highlighting on umpteen languages (I can install Prism or a port of it too).I mean this little stuff, like the table of contents in Markdown files, the respecting of darkmode, retention of scroll position in longer documents, or - and I LOVE this - the tabulation of YAML files. Anf you're not so pretentious as to decide I need a permanent fixture in my menu bar just for the once-a-year access I need to your preferences window. Even the background processes clean up after themselves (primary app AND helper!)! I wish ADOBE would take a lesson from y'all.Albeit: I've not tried it on every file type yet, but if the quality level so far holds, I'm EXTREMELY optimistic.Finally, consider, at least, accepting submissions for additional file types? I'm pretty I could get you over the hump on .docx/.xlsx... they're not that hard to parse. I assume you have this thing moduleized... wouldn't even need repo access if you posted your specs for the module. Or maybe consider an extensible API?Regardless, totally worth the 8 bucks. There's EASILY $8 worth of love poured into this. Well done, guys!
Just buy it - you’ll be glad you did.
Aviris
Came across this years ago when I was having trouble with one of my machines not rendering MarkDown in quicklook. To that point I had used free/open solutions, but I could not get this one fixed. Peek fixed it, but it wasn’t long before I realized that my other Macs could QL Markdown, but I could not search, copy, etc. Now it is part of my initial setup on every Mac I own. As others have noted, it is very well done with attention to details that most won’t ever notice — and that is what makes this great. Install once and then forget about it. It just works without getting in the way. It’s been about 6 years I think, and has totally been worth the investment.
Does the job right
Deep.Space
Update: Kudos to the developer for implementing theme choices on such short feedback.When it comes to non-native apps for M1, there still aren't many equivalent native alternatives, specially for niche developer tools like Quick Look enhancers. This app makes for a great replacement for similar tools out there, and the preview features other than syntax highlighting, like the Markdown preview works without issues. Definitely worth the few bucks.
Developer Response
Syntax highlighting themes are now available.In the update (2.4.1), Peek uses PrismJS for Python, which handles f-strings better. Be sure to change the default Prism theme from 'custom'/'custom-dark' to a different one for richer highlighting.
Dependency updates:
* Fab 1.2
Version 2.6.4
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