site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Organization: An Apple OS X end user Priority: normal -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I would like to add the ability to set kMDItemKind and kMDItemContentType from an X11 application (XEmacs). I have written an mdimporter that lets spotlight index elisp files and other files I have registered though the importer (types el, mss, and text <key>public.filename-extension</key>). I created a <key>org.xemacs.ostype</key> <string>XEma</string> and a <key>UTTypeDescription</key> <string>XEmacs Document</string> <key>UTTypeIdentifier</key> <string>org.xemacs.text</string> The importer works fine except that XEmacs does not have any code in it (yet) to make sure its files have the correct metadata when they are written. What is the minimum I would need to add the ability to accomplish this? Could the ability be created in a plugin that provided some external hook that XEmacs could call with a complete path? I am thinking maybe the sample metadate application could be adapted for that. I think that would be better than having to create an Xcode wrapper for XEmacs. Ultimately, in addition to automatic indexing, I would like XEmacs to be able to determine modes for files from the metadata which would be helpful for a number of reasons. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com