Quick look for text files with non-registered extensions

It seems there was a way in 10.5 and 10.6 to register certain extensions with Quick Look to tell them how to preview a file. I have a lot of plain text files with different extensions that are not initially recognized by Quick Look. How do I hack the registry to tell Quick Look to preview a .cfg (or .aux, etc.) file as plain text?

Can't Quick Look for some text files
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Your question prompted me to do some research, and I found this workaround posted by Scott Grossberg:
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