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

Keith Chugg chugg at usc.edu
Sat Dec 10 13:47:59 EST 2005


I see similarly odd behavior using spotlight for tex files and  
internal tag-words.  If I spotlight "\begin{figure}" I get a number  
of hits.  But, I can believe that there should be many more and the  
ones that I am seeing are those that have been transfered from a  
different OS.

I created a file called "foo.tex" with one line inside "foobar is  
bad".  If I spotlight "foo", the top hit is foo.tex.  If I spotlight  
"foobar" I get no hits.

It seem that spotlight gives odd behavior lots of time, not just with  
tex files...



On Dec 6, 2005, at 6:41 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

> I really miss having Spotlight index my .tex files. I understand  
> that there is a fix for this problem, but it involves installing  
> emacs. Is a more general solution in the works that will be  
> released soon or should I go ahead and install emacs and then look  
> back in the list archives for the specifics on how to get indexing  
> going again.
>
> Thank you,
>
> -- Gary
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