[OS X TeX] status of Spotlight indexing of .tex files?

[Norm Gall]

On 13-Dec-05, at 12:38 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:

> On 13 Dec 2005, at 12:01, Timothy Larkin wrote:
>
>> I wrote a Spotlight importer that knows about .tex files.
>>
>> If a couple of hardy souls are interested in torture testing it,  
>> please let me know off-list.  If it passes, I can make it  
>> generally available.
>>
>> I wrote into the logic a couple of personal preferences.  All  
>> control words are ignored, as are numbers. For me this is good,  
>> but perhaps this view is not generally shared?
>
> Please get in touch with the other developers working on spotlight  
> importers for tex files. There is a lot of movement in this area,  
> with your importer basically being the third to pop up here. A UTI  
> has just been agreed upon, and the last thing we need is multiple  
> importers working against each other.
>
> I'm sure Norm Gall & Adam Maxwell will respond as well, but please  
> get in touch to coordinate things, to avoid making the lives of  
> your collective user group very miserable indeed.

Ok. I suppose that I am the man with respect to the importer.

I have re-written the importer this morning and have set the UTI to  
org.tug.tex, it recognises .tex, .latex, and .texi extensions. It is  
independent of any editor (as far as I can tell so far) and I will be  
testing it for the next few days to make sure I haven't made a mess  
of things.

Here is the mdimport output:

[gall at ludwig gall] $ mdimport -d3 Desktop/foo.tex
2005-12-19 10:07:55.029 mdimport[399] Attributes of file '/Users/gall/ 
Desktop/foo.tex' before import: {
     "_kMDItemImporterCrashed" = <null>;
     "com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 156704847;
     kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2005-12-19 10:03:00 -0700;
     kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2005-12-19 10:07:27 -0700;
     kMDItemContentType = "org.tug.tex";
     kMDItemContentTypeTree = ("org.tug.tex", "public.text",  
"public.data", "public.item", "public.content");
     kMDItemDisplayName = {"" = "foo.tex"; };
     kMDItemKind = {"" = "LaTeX Source File"; };
}
2005-12-19 10:07:55.030 mdimport[399] Import '/Users/gall/Desktop/ 
foo.tex' type 'org.tug.tex' using 'file://localhost/Users/gall/ 
Library/Spotlight/LaTeX.mdimporter/'
2005-12-19 10:07:55.032 mdimport[399] Sending attributes of '/Users/ 
gall/Desktop/foo.tex' to server.  Attributes: '{
     "_kMDItemImporterCrashed" = <null>;
     "com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 156704847;
     kMDItemAuthors = ("Norman Gall");
     kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2005-12-19 10:03:00 -0700;
     kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2005-12-19 10:07:27 -0700;
     kMDItemContentType = "org.tug.tex";
     kMDItemContentTypeTree = ("org.tug.tex", "public.text",  
"public.data", "public.item", "public.content");
     kMDItemDisplayName = {"" = "foo.tex"; };
     kMDItemKind = {"" = "LaTeX Source File"; };
     kMDItemTextContent = "\\documentclass[11pt]{article}\n\n\ 
\usepackage{amsfonts}\n\\usepackage{graphicx}\n\n\\title{Brief  
Article}\n\n\\author{Norman Gall}\n\n\\date{\\today}\n\n\\begin 
{document}\n\\maketitle\n\nThis is a whole bunch of text.\n\n\ 
\bibliographystyle{}\n\\bibliography{}\n\\end{document}\n \n\n%%%  
Local Variables: \n%%% mode: latex\n%%% TeX-master: t\n%%% End: \n";
     kMDItemTitle = "Brief Article";
}'

I think I'm going to rename some things (tex.mdimporter, perhaps) but  
I'd like to know what extensions people use to mark their files.

I hope that this will be helpful,
n

-- 
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up  
on the roof
and gets stuck.
George Carlin


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