Peek — A Quick Look Extension

Name: Peek — A Quick Look Extension
Price: 7.99 USD
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Author: Big Z Labs LLC

Copy, Search, Jump, & more

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$7.99

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Big Z Labs LLC
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Mac

Accelerate your workflow with the Quick Look conveniences that only Peek can deliver: searching, jumping, scroll restoring, syntax highlighting, & more. -- 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). -- • 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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Just What I Needed!
Aug 30

BruceGIsMe
I had been using several other apps to view just a hand full of file types, then I found Peek which handles 500+ file types. It works perfectly and having the ability to perform “find”, “locate”, “copy / paste” is incredible. Well worth the price. Thanks to the Dev’s of this app!
Just What I Needed!
Aug 30

BruceGIsMe

I had been using several other apps to view just a hand full of file types, then I found Peek which handles 500+ file types. It works perfectly and having the ability to perform “find”, “locate”, “copy / paste” is incredible. Well worth the price. Thanks to the Dev’s of this app!
Credit where it's due...
04/11/2022

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!
Credit where it's due...
04/11/2022

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!
Copy Paste from QuickLook again!
10/15/2021

Aviris
Like others, I was so desparate for this functionality (since its removal in Sierra) that I purchased this app just for that. Then I discovered it worked by granting permissions to a helper utility to monitor inputs. No way. I deleted the entire app. Not sure how I discovered they'd come up with a different method, but I sure am glad. As a bonus, I use Markdown a lot and for some reason one of my Macs wouldn't render it in Quicklook (despite having the same markdown quicklook plugin as all my other machines). Intalling this fixed that. Not completely stylable, but still better than plain text.
Copy Paste from QuickLook again!
10/15/2021

Aviris

Like others, I was so desparate for this functionality (since its removal in Sierra) that I purchased this app just for that. Then I discovered it worked by granting permissions to a helper utility to monitor inputs. No way. I deleted the entire app. Not sure how I discovered they'd come up with a different method, but I sure am glad. As a bonus, I use Markdown a lot and for some reason one of my Macs wouldn't render it in Quicklook (despite having the same markdown quicklook plugin as all my other machines). Intalling this fixed that. Not completely stylable, but still better than plain text.
Does the job right
09/09/2021

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.
Does the job right
09/09/2021

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 09/16/2021
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

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Peek — A Quick Look Extension

Copy, Search, Jump, & more

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Just What I Needed!

Credit where it's due...

Copy Paste from QuickLook again!

Does the job right

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