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I briefly mention the spacebar shortcut in the article but it does indeed deserve more explanation. One of my favorite macOS file browsing features for sure, miss it all the time on Linux, especially the part where it follows your focus when you use the arrow keys. Great for looking through large folders of poorly-named PDFs for the right thing.

If you’re looking for text, pdfgrep works pretty well too.

Spotlight is great but by default it will only do extensions it knows about, and will ignore text files like .css and most source code files.

There is a plugin called qlstephen that allows you to spotlight all text files (but it's a bit of a pain to install on Catalina due to permissions issues): https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen

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