[OS X TeX] status of Spotlight indexing of .tex files?

Gary L. Gray gray at engr.psu.edu
Wed Dec 7 12:31:34 EST 2005


On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Norm Gall wrote:

>
> On 7-Dec-05, at 10:13 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
>> On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:07 PM, Norm Gall wrote:
>
>>>
>>> This is exactly right. TeXShop write TEXT files and so those  
>>> files get indexed.
>>>
>>> However, if you are using any of the emacsen, they do _not_ get  
>>> written as TEXT files and as such require an importer. I have  
>>> one, but it is linked to my yaced Carbon Emacs.
>>>
>>> I am going to make my importer good for any .tex, .latex.  
>>> and .texi file before Xmas.
>>
>> I don't understand this -- my TeXShop files are not being indexed.  
>> Only the resulting PDFs are being indexed by Spotlight.
>
> Hmmm... I _could_ be wrong, but I seem to clearly recall that it did.
>
> My apologies if I am wrong. I can't check now becase I have my  
> importer installed and it is importing .tex files.
>
> Without a .tex extension, a TeXShop files gets imported by the  
> RichText importer:

Mine all have the .tex extension. Might that be why mine are not  
being imported?

-- Gary
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