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1.0.1 — 2026-09-09

First public release of Syntax Look.

  • Syntax-highlighted Quick Look previews for 150+ file types
  • 5 curated themes: Light, Dark, Monokai, Solarized, Nord
  • Selectable, copyable text via native NSTextView rendering
  • Toggleable line-number gutter
  • Configurable typography: SF Mono, Menlo, Fira Code, JetBrains Mono, and more
  • Adjustable font size (10–20pt)
  • Smart large-file handling: renders the first 512KB of larger files with a truncation banner
  • In-preview settings gear for theme, font, size, and line numbers
  • Auto-language detection from extension, filename, or shebang
  • Faithful rendering: comments with TODO/FIXME markers, template literals, and markdown horizontal rules display exactly as written
  • Legacy encodings (Windows-1252, Latin-1, UTF-16 with/without BOM) decode correctly
  • Logs, CSVs, and lock files render as clean plain text instead of mis-detected color
  • Universal binary (Apple silicon + Intel), macOS 14+