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Using gnuplot-mode on windows is problematic. #4
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A fellow names John Hardy (among several who have contacted me over the last couple of years) said:
You probably get nagged quite a bit about this. Some have been running into issues with gnuplot-mode and Windows and I’m wondering if you have any comments. I use it just fine on Linux, but it seems that Windows users are not able to send data to gnuplot successfully.
Org-mode also uses gnuplot-mode and this org-plot and org-mode babel+gnuplot are not working correctly on Windows.
Any thoughts? I’m hoping to include any results in the Org-mode wiki for gnuplot use: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.php
If you’re interested, here are some of the threads I’m referring to:
- http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.emacs/2007-07/msg00159.html
- http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg14544.html
- http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/53489131c79f62b3
If you’d like to see my summary of the issues to the org-mode mailing list, it’s here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/30235
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BrianZbr commentedon Dec 20, 2012
I'm having trouble even figuring out how to install gnuplot-mode in Windows. Judging from this thread I guess it's not worth trying any further?
joddie commentedon Dec 20, 2012
It's easy to install by enabling MELPA (see http://melpa.milkbox.net/), followed by
M-x list-packagesand choosinggnuplotfrom the list. Or you can just download all the.elfiles from the github repository, byte compile them and put somewhere in your Emacs load-path.That said, there do seem to be problems on Windows which I would like to fix, but I will not have easy access to a Windows machine to do so until the new year.
There is also a different
gnuplot-modeon MELPA which has been reported to work better on Windows, so you might try that too.BrianZbr commentedon Dec 20, 2012
Great, this information is very helpful, thanks!
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 2:25 AM, joddie notifications@github.com wrote: