Homebrew: fatal: Needed a single revision
Solution: cd $(brew –repository) && git fetch && git reset –hard origin/master Source
[Unsolved] (Homebrew) Emacs.app doesn’t appear in Spotlight
After using brew linkapps emacs Emacs still didn’t show in Spotlight for me. I googled and found this issue https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/4635 TL;DR nothing got fixed on the homebrew side. Caskroom puts stuff into /opt where as Homebrew puts stuff into /usr/local which is why that it works fine. According to this comment using an OS X “Alias” will fix it. But that didn’t work for me on El Capitan. Apparently moving Emacs.app may have problems due to Homebrew passing –disable-ns-self-contained Which…
Order of arguments/options in Homebrew
I came across this comment on Super User and wanted to see which was the correct order of arguments for brew Is it brew install –option formula or brew install forumla –option? https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/MacOSX has the options listed as brew install ffmpeg –with-fdk-aac –with-ffplay –with-freetype –with-libass –with-libquvi –with-libvorbis –with-libvpx –with-opus –with-x265 and was last modified on the 1st of March 2016. However brew(1) from man shows: But http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Installing_Emacs_on_OS_X again shows the order as brew install emacs –with-cocoa I guess the bigger…
Search for a command in Homebrew
Two ways: brew search forumla Which is in built however won’t work if you are looking for if it’s not the name of the formula. This is my script called brew-search Which can be called by brew-search command My script works for xxd.
brew cask list shows uninstalled Casks
brew cask list Is showing my uninstalled casks. Running brew cask uninstall –force <caskname> fixed it! Source
Uninstall a Cask using Homebrew
brew cask uninstall google-chrome