| What does indexing markdown content mean? [message #1890] |
Wed, 15 January 2025 04:02  |
Atlas
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Registered: August 2009
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In the Foxtrot release notes, it says "Contents of Markdown (.md) files are now indexed", and I'm confused what this means. Haven't markdown files been indexed this entire time? They're indexed as text files, but I can search through them just fine. Can someone clarify what this update does to markdown files?
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| Re: What does indexing markdown content mean? [message #1891 is a reply to message #1890] |
Fri, 17 January 2025 11:38  |
FoxTrot Engineering
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FoxTrot indexes the contents of known file types only.
Markdown files (.md) are not defined as plain text file by default by macOS.
If you have installed a markdown reader or editor app (or some text editor) that declares a Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) for .md files, then FoxTrot knows they should be indexed as plain text files. In the other case, FoxTrot assumed that .md files are un unknown binary format.
FoxTrot has his own list of common plain text formats in addition to those predefined by macOS or provided by third-part apps, and we added .md to this list in version 8.0.4.
Here is the current list:
h
hh
hp
hpp
h++
hxx
ipp
c
m
cp
cpp
c++
cc
cxx
mm
java
jav
swift
md
py
pl
rb
sh
applescript
sql
Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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