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Re: plain text and Spotlight
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Re: plain text and Spotlight


  • Subject: Re: plain text and Spotlight
  • From: The Karl Adam <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:23:28 -0400

There really is no need for this, as it will automatically happen when
a UTI aware text editor is installed. When this new text editor claims
the cgi type as a UTI type that inherits from com.public.plain-text
for example, Spotlight should read those files with the most specific
importer available. So if there is no importer for cgi, it should fall
back on the plain text importer.

-Karl

On 5/8/05, Jacob Michaelson <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> First time poster here.
>
> I like the idea of Spotlight, but find it a little limiting in its
> default configuration.  It seems to index the content of plain text
> (.txt) files, but not other plain text files (ie ones that don't have a
> .txt extension).  Is there a way to coax Spotlight into seeing, for
> example, files with a .cgi extension as a plain text file so that its
> contents are indexed and included when searching?
> This would be very, very helpful to me and I'm sure many others.  I
> don't think this requires a new importer be written, as Spotlight
> already knows how to handle .txt files; it just needs to be "tricked"
> into seeing other file types as plain text, too.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jake
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