[Texmacs-dev] Better integration of TeXmacs in MacOS X

[Ingolf Schäfer]

Hi,

I am using TeXmacs on MacOS X and wonder, if there could be a better  
integration of TeXmacs into the operating system. As a start, I have  
made an applescript droplet, with which you can open .tm files with  
double click out of the finder (it starts X11, if not already open  
and opens the file in TeXmacs).

Is there any interest, to add such a wrapper to the TeXmacs  
distribution? If there is, then we might even consider relasing  
TeXmacs as an application bundle, which does not depend one fink  
(i.e. a binary TeXmacs with included guile), which could be installed  
the Mac OS X way, by just copying the folder to your harddisk. I  
volunteer to build such a bundle, if anyone, besides myself would  
like one.

There are two other things:

First, I would like to have a spotlight plugin, to get metadata out  
of .tm files, for optimized searching. If I find time enough over the  
holidays, I will do this myself.

Second, the place of the user files in ~/.TeXmacs is rather  
"unmacish". I would prefer that they are by default in ~/Library/ 
TeXmacs, because this is the standard location or user files and  
moreover you can view this folder directly in the Finder.app.

Please comment on the above suggestions.

Yours,

Ingolf