[OS X TeX] Re: .tex and mdimport

[Norm Gall]

On 17-Nov-05, at 6:28 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:32 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The problem is that there's no SpotLight importer other than LaTeX  
>> MDIMporter, which requires yaced (Yet Another Carbon Emacs  
>> Distribution) <http://yaced.sourceforge.net/>.
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> It seems to work as a separate mdimporter (in /Library/Spotlight/)  
> since I don't have YACED. I downloaded the installer; had it place  
> the importer on my Desktop (it still forced me to restart --- silly);

It shouldn't have forced you to re-start; the master installer (the  
entire installation) forces you to log out (too many people were  
complaining that the icons didn't change when they installed yaced,  
so I simply made it happen). Sorry about that; that would be my error.

> put it in /Library/Spotlight/; restarted again (for good luck); did a
>
> mdimport -r /Library/Spotlight/LaTeX.mdimporter
>
> and, at least the .tex files in my home directory seemed to get  
> indexed. I later re-indexed /usr/local/teTeX to get those files  
> indexed too.
>

Hmmm... Perhaps there was some work I did for the separate release  
that I do not recall.

When you do an mdimport -d3, what UTI is being assigned to the tex  
files?

> I still wonder if I can simply replace this importer with the  
> ``official'' one, when it comes out, and force a re-index. Might  
> have to do a
>
> mdutil -E /
>
> and wait, and wait, ...
>

Well, if an 'official' one ever gets released, that answer is yes.

ng

> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
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