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Application is not linked out of box #618
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Hey @michaelssingh Regarding the spotlight/finder - it's a known issue. There were several related issues/prs - #41, #517, #488, #324. I acknowledge that the current instructions are problematic and they do not work. AFAIU the Homebrew-recommended way for apps to appear in applications folder/spotlight/whatever is to use cask (see #41). Unfortunately, I don't have enough time and motivation to tackle this. I would really appreciate someone to either (a) actually figure out the best way to link the app and update instructions or (b) figure out how to provide cask. Regarding the
Specifically the idea of |
P.S. Hope you don't mind that I changed the title and content to remove irrelevant stuff. Application is not linked OOTB by 'design'. |
Here's a
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Vim is definitely not a good fallback 😹 Not because it's vim, but because we are talking about GUI apps. Ok, we could try to run emacs with GUI instead, but then... what if I want to start a new Emacs instance not connected to a running server? IMO it's better to have |
Any updates on this or instructions on how to make .app appear in /Applications? |
Right there with you. I wish it did this automatically as well. However, if you were to |
OK, looks like I might have filled that out correct.
One of the immediate issues that I noticed after the installation was that there wasn't an icon for Emacs in the Application Launcher or Spotlight
On my system trying to create a link in /Application resulted in the following error:
ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@29/Emacs.app /Applications
Gave an error about read-only file-system
This how I managed to get the icon to appear in the application launcher but it doesn't show up in spotlight
ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@29/Emacs.app /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/Emacs.ap
When launching Emacs from here the Application Launcher, why don't we have it call
emacsclient -a emacs
to connect to server that is already running by default.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: