Re: _mac_applications patch for Mac OS X 10.4

[lists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After poking around some more, I think the best thing to do would be  
to modify _retrieve_mac_apps() so that it uses Spotlight to find the  
apps if you're running Tiger, and the old way if you're not running  
Tiger.  This way the apps would be found using Spotlight the first  
time, then added to the cache so you don't have to keep using mdfind  
every time you try to tab complete an app's name.  Motoi, since you  
are the expert on _retrieve_mac_apps() what do you think?

-Ryan


On May 11, 2005, at 9:49 AM, lists wrote:

> I've done some tweaking based on the submission in <http:// 
> www.zsh.org/mla/users/2005/msg00479.html> (thanks Scott and Wataru)  
> and have put together a patch for _mac_applications which uses the  
> _tiger_mac_applications function from the aforementioned submission  
> (which I've renamed to _spotlight_mac_apps since Spotlight will  
> probably be around after Tiger).  _mac_applications will now use  
> Spotlight (via _spotlight_mac_apps) if you're running Mac OS X  
> 10.4, and will fall back to the old way if you're not.  I'm also  
> including the modified _spotlight_mac_apps function (which will now  
> check for an Applications folder in your home directory as well).   
> Please let me know if there are any problems/objections.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>
> <_mac_applications.diff.gz>
> <_spotlight_mac_apps.gz>