Syntax Look
Syntax Look guides and fixes
Each one answers the question in full, whether or not you ever buy anything.
Fixing a specific problem
What goes wrong, what causes it, and what Syntax Look does about it.
- Syntax Look installed, but Quick Look still looks plain A Quick Look extension shows no change until macOS is told to use it. The one setting that fixes most reports, the qlmanage reset, and what to check after.
- When a .ts file previews as a video, or not at all macOS can treat a plain .ts file as an MPEG transport stream and hand it to a media previewer. What is happening, and which TypeScript files preview reliably.
- Why .zshrc and .gitignore preview as nothing Files with no extension give Quick Look nothing to identify them by, so macOS falls back to a generic icon instead of showing you the text.
- Why your file previews as garbled characters Accented letters and quotes come out as symbols when a preview assumes UTF-8 and the file was saved in an older single-byte encoding.
- Why a large file stops part way through the preview Quick Look previews are meant to be quick, so very large files are read up to a limit rather than highlighted in full and left to hang.