On Jun 29, 2007, at 03:08, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > > On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> >> On 29 Jun 2007, at 11:33 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: >> >>> On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 29 Jun 2007, at 11:00 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi! >>>>> >>>>> When I want to specify the type I want to search for in >>>>> Spotlight - >>>>> what's the correct type for an item in Bibdesk? >>>>> >>>>> I can find the type "Bibtex" but that will turn up only the >>>>> databases. >>>>> >>>>> Niels >>>> >>>> I'm not sure if this is set automatically, we don't seem to give a >>>> type for Spotlight. Maybe you can try "BibDesk Item". Probably Adam >>>> knows more about this. >>> >>> You can choose all available types via the spotlight-search in >>> Finder >>> (cmd+f; Kind: choose others and you get the complete list - that's >>> the way I found "BibTex" as type) and there's nothing like "BibDesk >>> Item" >>> >>> Niels >> >> Perhaps the list of known types is not fully updated. It builds >> dynamically anyway, and takes quite a long time for me.
It never stops for me, and keeps autocompleting random items. Finder usually crashes before it finds the type I'm looking for (that bug report was a duplicate). >> Also, the >> type "BibTeX" is not from BibDesk, I guess it is declared by a tex >> editor. So probably it's not declared explicitly as a Spotlight type >> either. So that means also "BibDesk Item" should work. Anyway, /If/ >> you can search for the type, that's the type. If that does not work, >> you can't. I failed to test this, as Finder's search sucks big time >> (the only thing I can get out of it is a long beach ball). Finder's search on 10.4 has an absolute value < 0. > Well, on the terminal I can kinda restrict it if I use something like > this:mdfind "kMDItemKeywords == 'Japan'cd" && "kMDItemKeywords == > 'Politics'cd" > > (restriction works because the type "kMDItemKeywords" is BibDesk- > specific. > Btw. I mixed up "Type" and "Kind" - I want to search for the "Kind" > Bibdesk Item > Interestingly if I search via the menubar-spotlight-search "kind" > doesn't seem to work as expected while it works via the Finder. > In Terminal, run mdls on one of the .bdskcache files in ~/Library/ Caches/Metadata/edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk, and look for kMDItemKind, but I think Christiaan is correct (I see something different on Leopard). Also, kMDItemKeywords is not BibDesk- specific. We have specific keys (Cite key, for instance), but they'll be prefixed with net_sourceforge_bibdesk in Terminal. -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
