Re: C-c C-c for a file extension

[liyer . vijay]

The answer would be slightly different if your gnuplot files have a
major mode (do they?), but for now, you can just do

M-: (local-set-key "\C-c\C-c" 'compile)

And then C-c C-c will run the compile command.  The first time you call
compile, it will start with "make -k" but you can change that to
gnuplot <filename>

If you're really lazy, you could do something like this:

(defun compile-gnuplot (filename)
  "Runs gnuplot on FILENAME taking (buffer-file-name) as default."
  (interactive (let ((name (buffer-file-name)))
                 (list (read-string (format "Filename (default %s) "
name)
                                  nil
                                  name))))
  (compile (format "gnuplot %s" filename)))

Then, in your buffer,
M-: (local-set-key "\C-c\C-c" 'compile-gnuplot)

I'm new to emacs lisp so comments on code also requested.  Ideally, the
function should also ask to save the buffer if it is modified.  But I
don't know elisp that well.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Vijay Lakshminarayanan

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