MultiMarkdown QuickLook Generators

02/26/2011 09:53:46

For anyone using MultiMarkdown 3.0 with Mac OS X, I have released two QuickLook generators — one for text files, and one for OPML files that contain MultiMarkdown text.

These generators are installed in ~/Library/QuickLook. After installing them, you should log out and log back in to trigger a refresh.

I just released the “official” versions; I had released unofficial versions the other day. There’s no real difference, but they are now built off of my github project (which is a fork from the original qlmarkdown) and are slightly more polished behind the scenes.

https://github.com/fletcher/qlmultimarkdown/downloads

Old Comments

By Joshua on March 6,2011 07:55:17

Thanks for the QuickLook generators. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to work on my install of Snow Leopard.

I have MultiMarkdown installed in the “common” location ~/Library/Application Support/MultiMarkdown (although I image that doesn’t even matter for the QL generator).

I’ve logged in and out to refresh the quicklooks (incidently, you can just type qlmanage -r at the Terminal to do the same thing without loggin out), but trying to preview a text file only show the icon in the pop-up window, not the text.

Looking at the console I saw the following message

2011-03-06 12.35.26 quicklookd32[320] launching /usr/local/bin/multimarkdown

It seems to attempt to launch multimarkdown from the /usr/local/bin directory. This then gives a ‘launch path not accessible’ error.

OK, so I tried copying the contents of the MultiMarkdown bin directory to /usr/local/bin, even though there is no binary file named “multimarkdown” there, only a perl script.

Then I tried to preview the text file again. This time I got a new error:

�2011-03-06 12.39.55 quicklookd32[407] * NSTask: Task create for path ‘/usr/local/bin/multimarkdown’ failed: 22, “Invalid argument”. Terminating temporary process.�

Any thoughts? Is there something wrong with my install? Should I have some additional file in /usr/local/bin to make this work?

By Fletcher on March 6,2011 09:30:22

The Common install is for MMD 2. The updated quick look generators are for MMD 3.

By Joshua Lotz on March 8,2011 10:31:32

OK, great. It works now after installing MMD 3. Thanks.

The quicklook preview doesn’t seem to show Swedish characters correctly, but I can post about that in the Google discussion group…

By Fletcher on March 8,2011 18:01:36

Discussed on the mailing list.