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

[mark oilcan]

--- Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> In addition, I'd like to see Spotlight Preferences have a tab to  
> permanently add (forced if necessary) directory trees to index so  
> there would be no need to use SpotlightIndexer.
> 

It is possible to do this, although not through the System Preferences. How
is explained here:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005050222125145

The hint neglects to mention that the field in the plist that you need to
modify also has <array/> in it which must be deleted. (This is mentioned in
one of the follow up comments.)

Mark A


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