[OS X TeX] Spotlight importers
Adam R. Maxwell
amaxwell at mac.com
Tue May 10 15:59:52 CEST 2005
On May 10, 2005, at 05:11, Stephen Anderson wrote:
> I've just installed Tiger, and I'm still getting up to speed.
>
> I installed the most recent yaced version of emacs, which includes
> an mdimporter for LaTeX files. For some reason, the package
> installs the importer module inside the Emacs.app package. I
> copied it from there to /Library/Spotlight with the others, but
> running mdimport -f on my Documents directory does not seem to get
> any of the LaTeX files there indexed for Spotlight, since none of
> them show up in searches. In contrast, the BibTeX file importer
> module mentioned a little while ago on this list seems to work,
> since my bibfiles do get indexed.
>
> What do I need to do to get my *.tex files indexed for Spotlight?
Try deleting the LaTeX mdimporter that you copied to /Library/
Spotlight; I think there are problems if you have multiple importers
for the same file type, as the one that's in the Emacs bundle is in a
valid location.
--
Adam
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