This project has been abandoned: Discussion

[setanarut]

2025 edit

sbarex-qlmarkdown is running extremely slow, I recommend this extension: https://github.com/chamburr/glance/releases

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This project has been abandoned, there are some alternatives like Glance and iPreview, but they don't provide only Markdown, they are all in one plugins and they don't allow customization.

My new Quicklook Markdown plugin ideas (features);

• GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) rendering (task list, tables, emoji)
• Show local images.
• Advanced CSS features (auto dark/light, theme customization)
• Long-term support compatible with newer mac/macOS versions.
• Completely FOSS

If you agree, click the like button.

I guess @sbarex can do that.

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Edit - 2021

Announcement

Thanks to @sbarex for new QLMarkdown

https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown
#102 (comment)

[relikd]

hehe, the QL community seems pretty if the same names keep popping up 😄
Hello dear @sbarex (assuming you will show up here eventually) and @hazarek, I think this is the third or fourth QL plugin we meet. Anyway, I am in favor of all the mentioned points.

I'd like to add

• no dependency on external, additional software

Let me clarify that, QLColorCode required highlight to be installed. That is the reason I never used the plugin and instead prefered QLStephen. That said, QLMarkdown does use a 3rd party parser (discount) but it is packaged together with the bundle. (EDIT: which I am ok with. Of course my point is not a requirement, just a would be very nice if)

Sure, if @sbarex wants to maintain it. Else, I think it would also fit for apps like https://github.com/MacDownApp/macdown to include it.

[setanarut]

@relikd Why do we need a macdown? Vscode/Vscodium can view and edit Markdown files.

[relikd]

Because I am using Sublime Text instead ;) which has terrible markdown support – at least regarding the live rendering. And loading a full-featured IDE (be it VScode or Xcode) to view md files seems an overkill for me.

[setanarut]

I switched from Sublime Text to VScodium, I am very glad. Vscode is not slow as before. Also extensions are very good.

these are very successful.
https://github.com/yzhang-gh/vscode-markdown
https://github.com/shanalikhan/code-settings-sync

[sbarex]

Hello to all. I'm not a swift or objc programmer. I do it for passion. Over time the development of ql generators has lost interest and when catalina deprecated the qlgenerator api many software did not update to the new api.

The ql generator that I always used is qlcolorcode. For this, for pleasure, I tried to migrate it to the new api, taking advantage of the opportunity to learn new things that may not strictly necessary.
Thus was born my first public repository. I am very pleased to see that it is used by others as well, although keeping up with the various bugs encountered on different systems is not always easy.
My other repositories, such as an archive generator, I haven't released publicly, at least for now.

I believe that it is not very difficult to bring this project to the new api, and update the library to use the gfm rendering...

[chrismessina]

FYI, I found these two solutions that might be of some interest...

There's Glance, which is now abandoned but open source:
https://github.com/samuelmeuli/glance

There's also iPreview, which is a paid app but covers a ton of formats:
https://findergg.com/

[sbarex]

I was starting to study a new implementation of this generator but I temporarily stopped due to a series of bugs on BigSur found in my other quicklook extensions project. The first and most serious is the WKWebView not working (but works the deprecated WebView). The second concerns the scroll bars (clicking on them causes the window to drag and not the content to scroll).
This problem occours also with Glance. Have you also had the opportunity to see the glance on big sur not working? Or is it a problem with my system?

[chrismessina]

This problem occurs also with Glance. Have you also had the opportunity to see the glance on big sur not working? Or is it a problem with my system?

Glance doesn't work at all on Big Sur. I was hoping maybe the source code could be used as reference to update/expand this QuickLook plugin... but yeah, Big Sur really did a number of these APIs.

[sbarex]

Unfortunately, this is a bug that only Apple can fix (or give instructions on how to get around it). Unfortunately, the quicklook framework is poorly documented, especially for macos. And by now also little used (just search on github to realize how few are the repositories that use it). I've written a couple of feedbacks to Apple but I doubt he'll ever get back to me. I don't know if the problem has been solved in the 11.1 beta 2 release...

[relikd]

Thats why I call it Bug Sur ;) … you can try if the old API is working (https://github.com/relikd/qlopml). Unfortunatelly (or luckily) I can't update to Bug Sur to test myself. I assume the chances are higher that older APIs still work (unless they have removed it completely). Would be nice if you could try 😃

[sbarex]

Thanks!
This repository uses the old quicklook generator api, deprecated on 10.15.
If I have to start a new project, however, I prefer to invest time learning the new api rather than using the old ones that sooner or later will cease to be available.

[setanarut]

If you need, i can test it on Big sur. Also QLAddict works on Catalina but not on Big Sur.

[sbarex]

thanks, but the repositories that use the old quicklook generator api potentially have completely different problems than those that use the new framework. I just hope that the next version of big sur fixes these bugs