[OS X TeX] Spotlight importers

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On May 10, 2005, at 05:11, Stephen Anderson wrote:

> I've just installed Tiger, and I'm still getting up to speed.
>
> I installed the most recent yaced version of emacs, which includes  
> an mdimporter for LaTeX files.  For some reason, the package  
> installs the importer module inside the Emacs.app package.  I  
> copied it from there to /Library/Spotlight with the others, but  
> running mdimport -f on my Documents directory does not seem to get  
> any of the LaTeX files there indexed for Spotlight, since none of  
> them show up in searches.  In contrast, the BibTeX file importer  
> module mentioned a little while ago on this list seems to work,  
> since my bibfiles do get indexed.
>
> What do I need to do to get my *.tex files indexed for Spotlight?

Try deleting the LaTeX mdimporter that you copied to /Library/ 
Spotlight; I think there are problems if you have multiple importers  
for the same file type, as the one that's in the Emacs bundle is in a  
valid location.

-- 
Adam
--------------------- Info ---------------------
Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
           & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Post: <mailto:MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>