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✨ Quick Look support

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
macos, swift
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by tracing the disabled File → Open as → Quick Look action and the code that displays files within a Tab. Check how CodeEdit currently handles files such as videos, then define done as enabling Quick Look and displaying those files in a tab without the current limitation.

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Description

enhancement
Description

Currently, CodeEdit cannot display certain files such as videos within a Tab.

The file menu -> Open as -> Quick Look is currently disabled.

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Swift
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