How many installs of Emacs do I have?

Question

At the zsh, I enter which emacs and get /usr/local/bin/emacs.

In my /Applications folder, I have an application called Emacs. When I click get info it says that it resides at /Applications.

So that all makes me think I have two different installs.

But then I moved the one in /Applications to the Trash and then tried running emacs and /usr/local/bin/emacs from the command line. Both times, I was met with zsh: command not found: emacs.

So that makes it seem like there is only one install.

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

If you install Emacs via homebrew it installs both to /usr/local/bin and to /Applications.

$ ll -d /usr/local/bin/emacs /Applications/Emacs.app
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root     admin  34 Jan 12  2019 /Applications/Emacs.app@ -> /usr/local/opt/emacs-mac/Emacs.app
lrwxr-xr-x  1 verence  admin  50 Mar 27 20:02 /usr/local/bin/emacs@ -> ../Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-26.3-z-mac-7.9/bin/emacs