Re: _mac_applications patch for Mac OS X 10.4

[Motoi Washida <a66@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ryan,

I want to try your great patch, but I have one remote Tiger machine, 
which has not finished indexing. :(

On 2005/05/12, at 0:42, lists wrote:

> 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?
I was just thinking about modifying _retrieve_mac_apps() to use Bill 
and Wataru's idea. If you don't mind, I'll modify and commit it.

> -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>
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Motoi Washida