Spotlight search in Actionscipt files / Lion

I'm using the latest version of Coda (1.7.4) as my default text editor and Coda is using Spotlight to search in the content of text files.
I'm developing a flash project and it has a lot of .as files which are linked to the Archive Utility by default. (UTI: com.apple.applesingle-archive)
Coda is searching only in text files (it *****, i know) and changing .as files' default application has no effect in the results.
My secound try was to add these lines
<string>public.archive.applesingle</string>
<string>com.apple.applesingle-archive</string>
<string>com.panic.coda.actionscript</string>
to the Info.plist file in /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter and reindexing with the following commands:
mdimport -r /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter
and
sudo mdutil -E /
No luck.
Does anyone have a working solution of adding new text file extensions to Spotlight?

It seems that after this tweaks spotlight has the expected search results.
Coda don't, so i think it's their turn now to fix the "search in files" option.

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