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Letting Spotlight find Brew Apps on MacOSX
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Say, you want spotlight to find MacVim. Doing

brew linkapps macvim

creates a symlink in /Applications. But Spotlight seems to ignore it. Instead, remove the symlink

rm /Applications/MacVim.app

and do

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to make alias file to POSIX file "/usr/local/opt/macvim/MacVim.app" at POSIX file "/Applications"'
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douo commented Jul 7, 2022

Nice!

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just what i needed, thx

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