brew linkapps for homebrew casks (automatically create symlink to /Applications folder)

Question

I am using homebrew and homebrew cask to manage my installations on my Mac with OS 10.10.5.

After installing an app using "brew cask install", no symlink in the /Applications folder shows up.

For apps installed via "brew install", a symlink to /Applications can be created by running the command "brew linkapps" – is there something similar for homebrew casks?

In this particular case, some features of the LatexTools package for Sublime Text 2 did not work (open pdf viewer automatically and jump to line in pdf) as LatexTools expects the pdf reader used to be located in, e.g. /Applications/Skim.app. Manually creating a symlink from the cask install location to /Applications via "ln -s" solved the problem.

Answer 1

There's no brew cask linkapps and casks are linked to ~/Applications rather than /Applications, as noted above. However, this will supposedly change to brew-cask moving app bundles to /Applications rather than linking. (see https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/13201)