Hi all, Here's a Spotlight importer for Pd (and AFAIK .pat) files.
Starting with tonight or tomorrow's autobuild, installing it (just double-click it) will let Spotlight look inside your Pd patches. Also, a beneficial side-effect of a necessary change to Pd-extended's bundle means that Pd-patches are now Quick Look-enabled (don't get /too/ excited, it is only the plaintext representation, but still extremely handy). And after the importer itself gets enveloped by Pd-extended's bundle, it will just work (no installation needed).
This version just indexes the entire text. In the future I could add specific metadata keys to correspond to "Pure Data Objects", "Pure Data Messages", "Pure Data Comments", and "Pure Data [declares]", which could then be used to construct complex Spotlight queries (but I just learned enough Obj-C to get this far tonight so give me a while : ) ).
Hans, apparently placing it in Pd-extended.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight will make it magically start working the first time Pd is dragged out of its .dmg. I don't have a clue about building this dynamically in the autobuilds, but since it is a Universal Binary and OS X only is it cool to add statically?
enjoy Luke
(by the way, you'll know you have the right Pd-extended when running "mdls -name kMDItemContentType a-patch.pd" gives "org.puredata.pd-patch" rather than "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge81a3a" or similar)