====== Configuring Spotlight to index TeX files ======
If you've found yourself unable to search for text contained inside .tex files through OS X spotlight, here is a solution:

Go [[http://www.spookyhill.net/norms-computing/latex-for-academics/|here]] and download the TeX mdimporter ([[http://www.spookyhill.net/wp-content/files/TeX.mdimporter.tgz|direct download link]]) An mdimporter is a plugin that tells Spotlight how to index a specific file type.

To install the mdimporter, extract the archive into the directory ''~/Library/Spotlight'':
  $ mkdir ~/Library/Spotlight   # (if the directory doesn't exist yet)
  $ tar xvfz TeX.mdimporter.tgz -C ~/Library/Spotlight
Now you have to let OS X know about the new mdimporter. To do so, open a terminal window and enter:
  $ mdimport -r ~/Library/Spotlight/TeX.mdimporter
To make sure everything is indexed, you may want to restart your computer. Also, to tell spotlight explicitly to add all ''.tex'' files in a directory (and its subdirectories), you can use the following command:
  $ find <directory where tex files reside> -name '*.tex' | xargs -n1 mdimport
Example:
  $ find /Users/marius/Work -name '*.tex' | xargs -n1 mdimport