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Standalone, Quick Look-based document preview application for macOS.

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qlview

This is a standalone document previewer based on macOS's built-in Quick Look engine——imagine a nicer qlmanage. It's particularly useful as a quick command-line viewer for terminal applications, like mutt.

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Installation

You can either download a pre-built release, or build it yourself. Either way, you then probably want to copy the executable into your PATH.

When getting the current release, you'll find the executable inside the ZIP file you downloaded. While it's codesigned and notarized, please note that you still cannot just double-click to run it, as it is not an app but a command line application.

When building it yourself, make sure you have Xcode installed. Either use that to open and build the project, or just run make from the command line. You will then find the executable in build/Release/qlview.

Usage

Run it from the command line:

# qlview <file>

If you execute qlview without any arguments, it'll open an empty window where you can drag a document into.

Mutt integration

To use qlview with mutt, there's a helper script mutt-qlview coming with the distribution. Put both that script and qlview itself into your PATH and then add these mailcap entries to your mutt configuration; see mutt's manual for more on that.

You can also add the following to your .muttrc to quickly open the first HTML attachment in qlview:

macro  index,pager V  <view-attachments>/html\n<view-mailcap><quit>

Feedback

Feel free to open issues or pull requests.