How do I get the Mac OS X 'quick look' feature to be more programmer-friendly?

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Published on 2009-05-18T11:05:57Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 18:10 UTC
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There are numerous text files that are always included in common downloads such as rails plugins: LICENSE, ChangeLog, Rakefile, etc.

I know these files are plain-text, but Mac OS X refuses to acknowledge this automatically. If I hit the spacebar in Finder to activate "quick look", the icon becomes huge but the contents of the file are not shown, presumably because they have no file extension.

How do I stop this madness so I can quickly look at READMEs just by hitting the spacebar?

I've already got a ton of text editors installed on my mac: this question is purely about efficiency and making simple files accessible as quickly as possible.

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