Off list: Re: [OS X TeX] status of Spotlight indexing of .tex files?

[Alain Schremmer]

Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Dec 21, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>>
>>>> Understand that while Spotlight doesn't index all text files that  
>>>> might be a blessing.
>>>
>>>
>> I don't like anyone to do things for my own good. If not the next  
>> thing, then the next one is sure to be "trusted computing", what  
>> Stallman calls "treacherous computing". I don't want to rislk  
>> getting off topic but I think that it is a real danger, one that  
>> everyone ought at least to be aware of (I wasn't until recently)  and 
>> one more than likely to occur sooner than later.
>>
>> Aside from its "style"—which can be annoying, I think that the  
>> following is a must reading
>>
>>    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
>>
>> Frightened regards
>> --schremmer
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I was referring to the performance hit all the indexing would take  
> rather than what any individual might find informative. Also, there  
> is such a thing as information overload; although that threshold  
> varies from individual to individual.

Since, as you say, it would be a matter of … preference, I am sure that 
the threshold could be controlled … in the Preferences rather than by 
Apple.

So, the question, is: Why isn't it? Answer: Just leave it to the 
experts. (Never mind that the experts stand to profit by such 
"delegation of power". And I will refrain to give a couple of off topic 
but current examples.)

Frightened regards
--schremmer

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