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

[Ed Baskerville]

Two things:

(1)

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

That should be -name, not .name.

(2)

> 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.

I was sufficiently inspired and figured out what those lines of code  
are, and I am happy to share the results. An extremely stupid-simple  
LilyPond metadata importer, that simply interprets the contents of  
the file as plain text, is at:

http://edbaskerville.com/software/lilypond-importer/ 
LilyPond.mdimporter.zip

Just put it in /Library/Spotlight/, and your .ly files should be  
indexed.

Code if you're interested (it's a pretty minor modification of the  
default metadata importer template):

http://www.edbaskerville.com/software/lilypond-importer/ 
LilyPondImporter-source.zip

--Ed