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

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Dec 8, 2005, at 07:22, Gary L. Gray wrote:

> What does that mean??? Good, bad, I did something wrong? Throw me  
> bone. :-)

I think it means give up and wait for an importer, because it ain't  
going to work.

Adam

>
> -- Gary
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Norm Gall wrote:
>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> ???
>>
>> n
>>
>> On 7-Dec-05, at 6:28 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 7, 2005, at 6:16 PM, Norm Gall wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, chalk this up to another goofy Spotlight thing.
>>>>
>>>> What happens when you run mdimporter -d3 <filename>?
>>>>
>>>> n
>>>>
>>>> PS You too Gary...
>>>
>>> I tried it on a on TeXShop .tex file and here is what I get:
>>>
>>> Loon:~/Desktop/Stuff for Gary/Research Interests gray$ mdimport - 
>>> d3 Research-Interests.tex
>>> 2005-12-07 20:26:29.592 mdimport[29604] Attributes of file '/ 
>>> Users/gray/Desktop/Stuff for Gary/Research Interests/Research- 
>>> Interests.tex' before import: {
>>>     "_kMDItemImporterCrashed" = <null>;
>>>     "com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 155440683;
>>>     kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2005-11-12 15:11:49 -0500;
>>>     kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2005-12-04 20:58:03 -0500;
>>>     kMDItemContentType = "dyn.ah62d4um4ge81k3p2";
>>>     kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
>>>         "com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text",
>>>         "public.plain-text",
>>>         "public.text",
>>>         "public.data",
>>>         "public.item",
>>>         "public.content"
>>>     );
>>>     kMDItemDisplayName = {"" = "Research-Interests.tex"; };
>>>     kMDItemKind = {"" = tex; };
>>> }
>>> 2005-12-07 20:26:29.594 mdimport[29604] Import '/Users/gray/ 
>>> Desktop/Stuff for Gary/Research Interests/Research-Interests.tex'  
>>> type 'dyn.ah62d4um4ge81k3p2' no mdimporter
>>> 2005-12-07 20:26:29.595 mdimport[29604] Sending attributes of '/ 
>>> Users/gray/Desktop/Stuff for Gary/Research Interests/Research- 
>>> Interests.tex' to server.  Attributes: '{
>>>     "_kMDItemImporterCrashed" = <null>;
>>>     "com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 155440683;
>>>     kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2005-11-12 15:11:49 -0500;
>>>     kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2005-12-04 20:58:03 -0500;
>>>     kMDItemContentType = "dyn.ah62d4um4ge81k3p2";
>>>     kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
>>>         "com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text",
>>>         "public.plain-text",
>>>         "public.text",
>>>         "public.data",
>>>         "public.item",
>>>         "public.content"
>>>     );
>>>     kMDItemDisplayName = {"" = "Research-Interests.tex"; };
>>>     kMDItemKind = {"" = tex; };
>>> }'
>>>
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>>
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>> "The Americans  will always do the right thing... After they've  
>> exhausted
>>  all the  alternatives."                              - Winston  
>> Churchill
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