[TxMt] Markdown with Textmate and Spotlight: What file extension is best?

[Fred B]

You need to set the UTI then add the new type to
"/System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter/Contents/Info.plist"
for text files or
"/Library/Spotlight/SourceCode.mdimporter/Contents/Info.plist" for
source files. (NB: SourceCode.mdimporter is installed with the dev
tools).

It would be great if the UTIs were set in TextMate. For now I have a
dummy "MyUTIs.bundle"[1] in my Applications folder just for that
purpose.

[1]: http://geekthang.com/files/MyUTIs.bundle.zip

Unzip in your Applications folder and add new types to
"/System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter/Contents/Info.plist".
CFBundleDocumentTypes should look like this[2].

[2]: http://pastie.textmate.org/18835

You can then check in the Terminal if the type is correct and an
mdimporter is found:

$  mdimport -n -d1 "YourFile.markdown"
You should see:
Import 'YourFile.markdown' type 'public.markdown.plain-text' using
'file://localhost/System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter/'

If it's ok, import the folder or file:
$  mdimport "path/to/folderorfile"


Check the link below for informations on how to make LaunchService
recognize the new UTIs if it doesn't work immediately, etc.

Informations found in this hint[3] AND in the comments.

[3]: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005052015041510