Re: Mac OS X 10.4 spotlight indexing of .ly files?

[Ed Baskerville]

If you haven't heard about it on this list, I suspect nobody has done  
one yet. I'll take it under advisement that there's a desire for this.

One temporary solution: the easiest way to tell OS X that your .ly  
files are text files is to set their HFS metadata type attribute like  
so (assuming all your files are in ~/Documents):

find ~/Documents .name '*.ly' -type f -exec /Developer/Tools/SetFile - 
t 'TEXT' {} \;

(stolen from a thread on importing log files at:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/ 
307008223731
)

Then they'll be searchable, to the extent that these files are  
searchable as plain text, by Spotlight. (I ran this with a Spotlight  
search window open, and it highlighted the power of that technology-- 
LilyPond files showed up instantaneously in the existing search  
results after I ran the command. Cool.)

Of course, you have to re-run this every time you write out a .ly  
file, unless you're using an editor that sets this attribute for you.

Short-term, doing one that simply passes things on to the default  
text importer is apparently like 4 lines of code; I'd just have to  
research what those lines are.

Long-term, of course, a real metadata importer that understands  
LilyPond syntax would be great. Which would be very easy for me to do  
if I get around to syntax coloring with this Lily editor I'm writing.

--Ed

On May 11, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Arjan Bos wrote:


> Hi there all you Mac OS X Tiger users.
> Does anyone of you know of a metadata importer for lilypond files?  
> Because currently they are not indexed.
> The documents from Apple tell how to do it, but since my c classes  
> are 12 years ago, I'm very rusty in this area. So if someone has  
> already done an importer I'd be very happy with a copy.
>
> The areas that imho need to be indexed are all commands (those that  
> start with \command-name), all scheme definitions and all header  
> information and all lyrics (without the timing and melismata  
> preferably).
>
> Regards,
> Arjan
>
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