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Surprised no one has mentioned QuickLook. In Finder, select a file (document, image, movie, etc.) and tap the space bar to bring up QuickLook. You’ll see a full
by eyesee 6y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned QuickLook. In Finder, select a file (document, image, movie, etc.) and tap the space bar to bring up QuickLook. You’ll see a full preview of that document instantly. The preview window follows your focus, so you can use mouse arrow keys to navigate between files, etc and see an updated preview. Also works in Open dialogs, Mail attachments and elsewhere.
- trishume 6y agoI briefly mention the spacebar shortcut in the article but it does indeed deserve more explanation. One of my favorite macOS file browsing features for sure, miss it all the time on Linux, especially the part where it follows your focus when you use the arrow keys. Great for looking through large folders of poorly-named PDFs for the right thing.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoIf you’re looking for text, pdfgrep works pretty well too.
- markc 6y agothank you thank you thank you!
- speleding 6y agoSpotlight is great but by default it will only do extensions it knows about, and will ignore text files like .css and most source code files. There is a plugin called qlstephen that allows you to spotlight all text files (but it's a bit of a pain to install on Catalina due to permissions issues): https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen