Building Gnuplot from Sublime2 OSX

Question

I am struggling to execute gnuplot scripts from Sublime2.

Gnuplot is installed and I can execute it from Terminal (OSX). My build configuration in Sublime 2 looks like this:

{
    "cmd": ["gnuplot"]
}

when Building it get the following result:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory
[cmd:  [u'gnuplot']]
[dir:  /Users/macuser/Documents/Gnuplot]
[path: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin]
[Finished]

How to I set up the build instructions in sublime so the script will be send to gnuplot with the current path as a working directory?

Thanks

Answer 1

I'm using Sublime Text 3 on OS X 10.9, and I solve the problem with the following procedure:

1. Open terminal and navigate to the Installed Packages on Sublime Text:

   $ cd ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
   

2. Copy the file Gnuplot.sublime-package and paste in Desktop.

   $ cp Gnuplot.sublime-package ~/Desktop
   

3. Rename the file to Gnuplot.zip and extract the content to a folder, ex. Gnuplot.

   $ cd ~/Desktop
   $ mv Gnuplot.sublime-package Gnuplot.zip
   $ unzip Gnuplot.zip -d Gnuplot
   

4. Navigate to the folder, Gnuplot, open the file gnuplot.sublime-build with any text editor, like vim or, even, sublime text. Don't close the terminal window.

   $ subl gnuplot.sublime-build
   

5. Onterminal type:

   $ which gnuplot
   

6. Copy the path and with the file gnuplot.sublime-build opened previously in step 4, append the following line path like this:

   {
       "cmd": ["gnuplot", "$file"],
       "path": "$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:",
       "working_dir": "${project_path:${folder}}",
       "selector": "source.gnuplot"
   }
   

7. Save the file, and open terminal again. Type the following commands:

   $ cd ~/Desktop/Gnuplot/
   $ zip Gnuplot.sublime-package *
   $ mv Gnuplot.sublime-package  ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages\
   

8. Restart sublime text 3, and it will work fine. Sorry with my bad english. LOL

Answer 2

In your case, a minimum build system should look something like this:

{
    "cmd": ["/full/path/to/gnuplot"],
    "working_dir": "${project_path:${folder}}"
}

You can also set "working_dir" to any specific directory. Check this page out for further info on constructing a build file:

Build system reference