[OS X TeX] Leo's Spotlight doesn't find sty, lco, engine files
Friedrich Vosberg
fvosberg at mac.com
Sat Nov 17 20:12:06 CET 2007
Am 17.11.2007 um 17.50 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell:
> On Nov 17, 2007, at 7:45 AM, Friedrich Vosberg wrote:
>
>> Maybe I do not understand the man page. But I can not find there
>> any hint how to enable mdimport to grab all the sty, engine and lco
>> (letter class option) files without using an importer plugin. But
>> that I do not possess.
>
> You are correct. You need an importer that recognizes those file
> types, or declares their UTI as descending from public.plain-text.
Okay. An importer is not available, I think. But I do not understand
these technical issues You've written.
>> The most curious is, that Spotlight can find all those files when
>> searching for them by Cmd+F in the Finder. But doesn't when using
>> the lens in the menue bar. So I think it's not a problem of
>> importing the files into the meta database. It's an issue of
>> displaying the files in the lens list.
>
> The Spotlight menu appears to do a content search. What type of
> search are you doing with cmd-f in Finder? Content or File Name?
You are allright. I've done a search for files with suffix .sty. These
is not really a Spotlight search, isn't it?
Kind regards, Friedrich
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