HI:
I installed textmate a few evenings ago and it appeared to be working, but then I went to Finder to preview some Matlab files (.m) and when I clicked on them in the Finder Window Preview Panel (not to be confused with Preview the app), it shows the text that is in the file, but NOT like it used to. Instead of the normal OS-X white background and black text, it shows the text in the same colors and format as TextMate! (Black background, white and drab brown and green text for quoted text etc. ).
How did this happen, in that all I did was install TextMate from the download link.
I’m not feeling a warm fuzzy when an application I install that modifies an operating system function and appearance, when I’m not thinking it should.
Thanks!
Herbert U. Fluhler 256-651-5673 [C]
On 8 Sep 2018, at 10:01, Herb Fluhler Huf2000@aol.com wrote:
How did this happen, in that all I did was install TextMate from the download link.
When you press Space with a file selected in the Finder, you activate something called QuickLook that's built into MacOS X. It has an open, plug-in architecture that lets applications provide viewers for all manner of file types - they can't possibly all be built into Mac OS itself, as new kinds of files are invented all the time. Instead, applications provide QuickLook plugins. You can also find standalone QuickLook plugins for certain files online; for example, there's one that will let you preview the contents of a Zip file.
TextMate provides QuickLook support with syntax colouring in the preview window for file types it supports. This is included inside the application bundle; no operating system modifications are made. I'm not aware of a TextMate setting to turn this feature off if you don't like it, but in theory you can just delete the QuickLook plugin from within the application bundle to do that - for example, see:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/128516/remove-quicklook-syntax-hig...
Hi Andrew:
Thanks so much for the quick response!
I will take a look this weekend and see if I can modify it thusly.
I suppose I could change the way that textmate displays its default files to achieve a similar effect.
But I was just a bit concerned when the Finder’s preview got changed!
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Cheers!
Herb
On 7 Sep 2018, at 5:18 PM, Andrew Hodgkinson ahodgkin@rowing.org.uk wrote:
On 8 Sep 2018, at 10:01, Herb Fluhler <Huf2000@aol.com mailto:Huf2000@aol.com> wrote:
How did this happen, in that all I did was install TextMate from the download link.
When you press Space with a file selected in the Finder, you activate something called QuickLook that's built into MacOS X. It has an open, plug-in architecture that lets applications provide viewers for all manner of file types - they can't possibly all be built into Mac OS itself, as new kinds of files are invented all the time. Instead, applications provide QuickLook plugins. You can also find standalone QuickLook plugins for certain files online; for example, there's one that will let you preview the contents of a Zip file.
TextMate provides QuickLook support with syntax colouring in the preview window for file types it supports. This is included inside the application bundle; no operating system modifications are made. I'm not aware of a TextMate setting to turn this feature off if you don't like it, but in theory you can just delete the QuickLook plugin from within the application bundle to do that - for example, see:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/128516/remove-quicklook-syntax-hig... https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/128516/remove-quicklook-syntax-highlighting-with-textmate2
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