[OS X TeX] Leo's Spotlight doesn't find sty, lco, engine files

Adam R. Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Sat Nov 17 21:28:42 CET 2007


On Nov 17, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Friedrich Vosberg wrote:

> Am 17.11.2007 um 17.50 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell:
>
>> On Nov 17, 2007, at 7:45 AM, Friedrich Vosberg wrote:
>>
>>> The most curious is, that Spotlight can find all those files when  
>>> searching for them by Cmd+F in the Finder. But doesn't when using  
>>> the lens in the menue bar. So I think it's not a problem of  
>>> importing the files into the meta database. It's an issue of  
>>> displaying the files in the lens list.
>>
>> The Spotlight menu appears to do a content search.  What type of  
>> search are you doing with cmd-f in Finder?  Content or File Name?
>
> You are allright. I've done a search for files with suffix .sty.  
> These is not really a Spotlight search, isn't it?

It's using Spotlight's metadata query facility, although names may not  
be indexed (I haven't checked).

-- 
adam



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