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Open all plain text files with Quick Look, and enable text selection in them
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| # See: https://coderwall.com/p/dlithw/use-osx-finder-quicklook-to-preview-all-plain-text-files | |
| # download last release from https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen/downloads | |
| wget https://github.com/downloads/whomwah/qlstephen/QLStephen.qlgenerator.zip | |
| # copy the plugin to /Library/QuickLook/ | |
| unzip QLStephen.qlgenerator.zip | |
| sudo mv QLStephen.qlgenerator /Library/QuickLook/ | |
| # enable text selection | |
| # See: https://coderwall.com/p/94rlia/copy-text-code-from-osx-quicklook-directly | |
| # TODO: doesn't seem to work on El Capitan... | |
| defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true | |
| # reset quicklookd | |
| qlmanage -r |
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