[OS X TeX] OT: Spotlight and command line [was Re: status of Spotlight indexing of .tex files?]

[Matthieu Masquelet]

Alright I did a little testing around with Tiger 10.4.3.

On a search with Spotlight, I get bibtex entries thanks to Bibdesk, I get
indexing of .tex files that I've created on Linux and copied on my Mac but
on the .tex that I've created on my .tex files created with TexShop, nothing
shows up, not even if I'm looking for the name of the file.

Checking on the terminal and looking at the attributes of these files, the
files imported from Linux have the attributes "avbstclinmedz" whereas the
files created with TexShop have "avbstclinmEdz", both being "TEXT" files.

According to the man page of GetInfoFile, the capital E means the extension
has been hidden. Could that explain the lack of indexing? Is there a way to
change this back?

Thanks in advance !


-- 
Matthieu Masquelet
Graduate Research Assistant
Computational Combustion Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology
404-894-1409


On 12/6/05 10:16 PM, "Michael Williams" <williams at thphys.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 7 Dec 2005, at 02:33, Jan Anderssen wrote:
> 
>> Then I noticed that files disappeared from the Spotlight search
>> (and didn't reappear in subsequent searches) when I renamed them
>> from the commandline, via "mv". Is that something that happens? If
>> you do something from the command line, you loose the indexed
>> information? Are things that run scripts, like i-Installer affected
>> as well? And what do I do to keep things up-to-date in the
>> spotlight world?
> 
> The Mac-like way to shift files around the command line (i.e. the way
> that preserved all HFS's resource fork bells and whistles) used to be
> to use /Developer/Tools/CpMac, /Developer/Tools/MvMac and /usr/bin/ditto
> 
> However, since 10.4, the built-in cp and mv have done the right thing
> and preserved type and creator codes:
> 
> [with cruft snipped]
> 
> otis:~/Library/TeXShop/Templates mike$ /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo
> Memoir.tex
> type: "TEXT"
> creator: "TeXs"
> 
> otis:~/Library/TeXShop/Templates mike$ cp Memoir.tex Memoir2.tex
> otis:~/Library/TeXShop/Templates mike$ /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo
> Memoir2.tex
> type: "TEXT"
> creator: "TeXs"
> 
> otis:~/Library/TeXShop/Templates mike$ mv Memoir2.tex Memoir3.tex
> otis:~/Library/TeXShop/Templates mike$ /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo
> Memoir3.tex
> type: "TEXT"
> creator: "TeXs"
> 
> Indeed, from the MvMac man page, "As of Mac OS X 10.4, the mv command
> preserves metadata and resource forks of files on Extended HFS
> volumes, so it can be used in place of MvMac. The MvMac command will
> be deprecated in future versions of Mac OS X."
> 
> It's my (limited) understanding of Spotlight (it has such an
> appalling UI that I don't make a habit of using it), that it should
> now index the new file. Indeed, I did something similar to the above
> thing with a regular .txt text file (created in TextEdit, as it
> happens), and Spotlight found the copy fine.
> 
> However, trying this out with my LaTeX file, I can't see Memoir3.tex
> from Spotlight. Unless the index lags the actual state of the
> filesystem by several minutes (I thought it was the point of
> spotlight that it doesn't), something very fishy is going on. I'm
> afraid I have no idea what though!
> 
> P.S. more gory Spotlight details are here, for those that are
> interested: <http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/9>
> 
> -- Mike
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