[OS X TeX] Spotlight and .tex files

[Gary L. Gray]

On May 3, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Norm Gall wrote:

>
> On 1-May-05, at 11:36, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
>
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>> On May 1, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Bruce Cohen wrote:
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>>> I would like to be able to use Tiger's "Spotlight" to search my  
>>> large collection of LaTeX source files.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?    (Yes, I could use grep, but ...)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It has indexed all of mine -- both the .tex source and the .pdf  
>> output. It is AMAZING! :-)
>>
>>
>
> By any chance are all of your tex files created by TeXShop (or  
> BBEdit, etc.)?
>
> None of my .tex files have been indexd, but I have created them all  
> with emacs of some flavour. Spotlight uses the Type/Creator codes  
> to identify the file?

They are all TeXShop files (with maybe a BBEdit file or three  
sprinkled in there).

-- Gary
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