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I am using OSX 10.6 and want to have content searches in finder for the source code types i use. This suggests a (10.4 only?) solution, but although i have the developer tools installed i don't have /Library/Spotlight/SourceCode.mdimporter.
Is there a different procedure for Snow Leopard or did i miss something?
Edit:
This looks better, but how to register new file types which don't have UTIs yet?
Edit2:
To clarify - i am ok with a simple plain text search through these files...
So it seems your problem is not in getting Spotlight to add something as much as getting the OS to see that .cmake files are plain text.
From the first edit I'm guessing that mdimport -n -d1 somefile.cmake isn't returning anything useful (If it is just add that type).
If it's not, try mdimport -d1 *.cmake public.plain-text or something similar.
Since I don't have any cmake files I can't test this.
mdimport -n -d1 foo.cmake doesn't output anything. As for mdimport -d1 *.cmake public.plain-text - is there a better way to do this globally then say a recursive find -exec? Can't i add file extensions that should always be automatically indexed as plain text?
It already works fine in 10.6 for common source code file types, e.g. .c, .h, etc.
You'll need to produce your own Spotlight plugin which defines a UTI for those files and hands them off as plain text. You can also try editing an existing importer, but since they're all code signed now, that may or may not break something important.
cmake is generally more trouble than it's worth.
.cmake.