Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding Bibdesk-items via Spotlight

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On 29 Jun 2007, at 5:10 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Jun 29, 2007, at 03:08, Niels Kobsch=E4tzki wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 29 Jun 2007, at 11:33 AM, Niels Kobsch=E4tzki wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29 Jun 2007, at 11:00 AM, Niels Kobsch=E4tzki 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 =20
>>>>> 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 =3D=3D 'Japan'cd" && "kMDItemKeywords =3D=3D=

>> '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

OK, I see it now. It's "Publication". "BibTeX" and "Publication" are =20
the localized versions of our document types ("bibTeX database" and =20
"BibDesk Item" respectively). And this is set automatically from the =20
UTI. So if you search for kMDItemKind =3D=3D 'Publication', it should =
work.

As an aside, kMDItemType would be =20
"net.sourceforge.bibdesk.bdskcache", but that does not seem to be set.

What do you see on Leopard (if that's not NDA)?

Christiaan