[OS X TeX] OT: Spotlight and command line [was Re: status of Spotlight indexing of .tex files?]

[Matthieu Masquelet]

Let's say I type "subsection" in the spotlight box, the .tex files that I've
imported from Linux will show up whereas the .tex files created on my Mac
will not. I never used mdls before...

Matthieu


On 12/7/05 1:07 AM, "Adam R. Maxwell" <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 6, 2005, at 21:32, Matthieu Masquelet wrote:
> 
>> So the file that shows on Spotlight gives me:
> 
> What do you mean by "shows on Spotlight?"  What was your search
> term?  If you use `mdls abstract.tex` it shouldn't be indexing any of
> the file's contents, since there is no importer for the type.
> 
>> 
>> 2005-12-07 00:28:20.877 mdimport[3407] Import
>> '/Users/Kheldar/Documents/Research/Reports_Papers_Confs/RENO_06/
>> abstract.tex
>> ' type 'dyn.ah62d4um4ge81k3p2' no mdimporter
> 
> This means that no Spotlight importer is available for this file
> type.  A 'dyn.*' identifier is system-assigned when it doesn't know
> what to do with the file.  The only information Spotlight will store
> is file-related metadata (name, date created/modified and so forth).
> 
> [...]
>> 
>> AS far as I can tell, there is no difference right? Do you think
>> the capital
>> E thing from the GetInfoFile mean anything?
> 
> I don't see any significant differences.
> 
> Adam
> 
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