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Mac OS X GUI for Neovim
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Brew linkapps step broken #315

Closed jpedrick closed 6 years ago

jpedrick commented 7 years ago

$ brew linkapps neovim-dot-app Warning: brew linkapps has been deprecated and will eventually be removed!

Unfortunately brew linkapps cannot behave nicely with e.g. Spotlight using either aliases or symlinks and Homebrew formulae do not build "proper" .app bundles that can be relocated. Instead, please consider using brew cask and migrate formulae using .apps to casks. Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/neovim-dot-app

michel-slm commented 7 years ago

+1. I use mostly Quicksilver which obviates that problem, but a cask still sounds like a better solution.

basilesimon commented 7 years ago

Just link it manually:

ln -s /usr/local/opt/neovim-dot-app /Applications

basilesimon commented 7 years ago

I've filed a PR to fix this issue: https://github.com/rogual/neovim-dot-app/pull/316

lsnch commented 7 years ago

Better way to link to an .app in the Cellar is to use alias (cmd+alt+drag). Spotlight doesn't show symlinks in GUI, it does show aliases though. reference

ghost commented 5 years ago

I did this:

ln -s /usr/local/opt/neovim-dot-app /Applications

But I see no Neovim executable in Launchpad, or anything about it in Spotlight.

The easiest solution would be if there was a downloadable .dmg that you could install normally.