Re: Xcode and spotlight question
Re: Xcode and spotlight question
- Subject: Re: Xcode and spotlight question
- From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 22:03:14 -0700
On May 8, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
On 8 maj 2009, at 19.50, Dmitry Markman wrote:
does Xcode require spotlight to do indexing?
It depends on what you mean, but the answer to you question is
probably no. Xcode provides a Spotlight source code importer that
indexes your source files and allows you to query them from
Spotlight. The data generated from this importer is also used to
back the "Symbol" search type in the batch find panel in Xcode.
To put it another way, what you would usually consider as "indexing"
in the Xcode IDE proper is not done by Spotlight, but rather by
Xcode itself. If you disable Spotlight indexing for the volume that
contains your source code Xcode will still index the source code
referenced by your projects, and all functionality in Xcode that
depends on the index will still work. The only thing that will not
work is the Symbol search from the batch find panel.
And the ability to match executables with their dSYM files when
debugging or symbolicating crash traces. If you disable Spotlight,
then the dSym files have to be in the same directory as the executable.
Chris
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