Custom plugins aren't working for me

[brandonweiss]

I originally posted about this in #38 as a follow-up, but I wanted to break this out into a separate issue. I'm going to quote what I wrote there:

The first thing I did was follow the instructions for creating a plugin so I could create some simple custom searches, but I couldn't get it to work. The plugin shows up in the installed list and there aren't any errors in Console, but it doesn't change the Spotlight search results.

The only Python I have installed is from the system (/usr/bin/python) and is version 2.7.6. Let me know if there's any more information I can give that will help.

One other thing I noticed is that while the installed plugins have (or generate) a plugin.pyc file, the custom plugins I wrote don't. I don't know much about Python, but this would seem to indicate the plugin.py isn't being loaded or run.

[nate-parrott]

hmm.. that seems to me like an issue with your examples.txt not being matched — that's the step that comes before invoking plugin.py
can you paste your examples.txt?

[brandonweiss]

Damn, that was it. I think the initial version of the plugin tutorial didn't expressly state an examples.txt file was necessary, so I guess I hadn't added it yet. Thanks!