"brew linkapps" does this for you.

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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Vikas Rawal <
vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> wrote:

>
> This thread is rather off-topic for this list. Isn’t it?
>
> But since we have a hugely tolerant community, it is perhaps okay.
>
> I have a homebrew install, with a symbolic link to
> /Applications/Emacs.app. Works just fine.
>
> Vikas
>
> On 15-May-2014, at 8:51 pm, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
>
> > Aloha all,
> >
> > Macports has an emacs-app that bundles all the files in
> > /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/
> >
> > We use this at work and find it convenient.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Tom
> >
> > Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> writes:
> >
> >> On 2014-05-15 10:31, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> >>> Probably not the answer you want, but as a long-time mac and emacs
> >>> user, my suggestion would be to use the vanilla os x version of emacs.
> >>>
> >>> The "nextstep" build of emacs runs as a native app,
> >>>
> >>> You are suggesting to a Mac user to build his own Emacs?
> >>> Do you know what that takes?
> >>> About 10 minutes :-)
> >>>
> >>> I just realized that it is even possible to download it prebuilt.
> >>>
> >>> I recommend a homebrew-based install of emacs.
> >>>
> >>> I like the version available from railwaycat/emacsmacport tap
> >>> (https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port [1]).
> >>
> >> Not familiar w/ emacsports, will take a look at it this weekend. My
> >> problem w/ the homebrew install (and i'm a homebrew fan) is that
> >> i prefer the "all-in-one" (--with-ns) package and not having the app
> >> spread around /usr/local in unix fashion the way the homebrew install
> >> works.
> >>
> >> Personally, i used homebrew to install the build dependencies
> >> (autoconf, automake, imagemagick, etc) and the git mirror of the emacs
> >> trunk (http://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git) YMMV.
> >>
> >> rick
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Thomas S. Dye
> > http://www.tsdye.com
> >
>
>
>