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

[George Gratzer]

I have just one comment: EasyFind from DEVONtechnologies is free and  
does the job admirably.

GG

On Dec 10, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Keith Chugg wrote:

> 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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