Emacs doesn't appear in Applications after installation

[Mariownyou]

I installed emacs@28 and I can't find it in my applications though it works if I run from terminal

[kborling]

Try running the following command in your terminal:
ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@28/Emacs.app /Applications

This will create a symbolic link in your /Applications folder that points to the Emacs.app file.

[d12frosted]

@Mariownyou this is a limitation of brew formulaes that don't use cask. See #41 for a proper solution. In general, use @kborling solution as adviced by Emacs+ formula itself (e.g. what is printed when you install Emacs+):

==> Caveats
Emacs.app was installed to:
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/emacs-plus@28/28.1

To link the application to default Homebrew App location:
  ln -s /opt/homebrew/Cellar/emacs-plus@28/28.1/Emacs.app /Applications

To start d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus@28 now and restart at login:
  brew services start d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus@28
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
  emacs

[strickinato]

Wanted to call this out here as well:
(#41 (comment))

An alternative to symlinking is to drag the application bundle in to your /Applications folder and then spotlight will index it properly 😄

[d12frosted]

Another alternative is to use macos aliases - #517 (comment)