Spotlight results

[skurfer]

As discussed on the list, I’ve created a new category to simplify a common Spotlight task: give me the current results and go away. I see a need for this in at least three plug-ins off the top of my head. No one objected, so here it is. :-)

A brief description can be found in the header.

[pjrobertson]

I played with this thinking it could be used for a new Mail module. Unfortunately the results returned don't contain any info on the mailbox, so I don't think it can be used.

None-the-less, this is handy :)

[skurfer]

I played with this thinking it could be used for a new Mail module. Unfortunately the results returned don't contain any info on the mailbox, so I don't think it can be used.

What do we need about the Mailbox other than its name? I did a stand-alone command line tool that used this category to dig through the mail folder structure (just as a proof of concept), and it seemed to work well.

[pjrobertson]

What do we need about the Mailbox other than its name?

Nothing really, but how do you get the mailbox name? You could possible try
and sniff it out of the 'path', but I don't know how reliable that is.
Great news if you've got something working though, I know little about
mdfind so I probably overlooked something.

On 16 April 2012 14:13, Rob McBroom <
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wrote:

I played with this thinking it could be used for a new Mail module.
Unfortunately the results returned don't contain any info on the mailbox,
so I don't think it can be used.

What do we need about the Mailbox other than its name? I did a stand-alone
command line tool that used this category to dig through the mail folder
structure (just as a proof of concept), and it seemed to work well.

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[skurfer]

You could possible try and sniff it out of the 'path', but I don't know how reliable that is.

That’s what I was thinking. In fact, the small example I cooked up uses plain old NSFileManager stuff for mailboxes. It only resorts to Spotlight for getting messages, since that’s where the directory structure gets tricky.

Thanks for merging, by the way. Once #804 is in, we can release an updated Spotlight plug-in.

[lovequicksilver]

Thanks, this is useful!

Using this in the ß68 prerelease. When Using 'Spotlight Filenames of Contents…' or 'Spotlight Contents…', QS returns the magnifying glass 'Searching' message only. Pressing ↓ or ↑ will then show a search result in pane 1. Occasionally I then see the results in the list, usually I see just the first result found or the 'Searching' icon.

[skurfer]

I wouldn’t expect the Spotlight plug-in to work any better that it did before. This just lays the groundwork so I can fix it.