Re: [Tracker] Tracker doesn't index contents of text/x-tex files

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2006/12/14, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

Mark Florian wrote:
> I just noticed that tracker doesn't index the contents of files of the
> type text/x-tex, that is TeX/LaTeX files. If I copy such a file, called
> say thesis.tex to thesis.txt, then tracker indexes that .txt file fully
> as would be expected.
>
> I haven't checked how tracker treats other variants of text/* mimetypes,
> but it strikes me that tracker should index the contents of *all* text
> files.

It does index all plain text files that it detects however if it has a
mime type other than text/plain then it checks the filters directory to
see if a filter is defined for it. If not present then no text is extracted.

all the latex/tex  needs is a filter to call untex on it (in
tracker/filters/text)

patches for above welcome

It should be fairly easy to extract metadata from .tex files too. Like Author and Title (if present - and set through the standard LaTeX macros).

If this weekend turns out to have something like 500 hours I might look into it :-)

Cheers,
Mikkel