Version 0.9 of package Gnuplot has just been released in NonGNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Gnuplot describes itself as: =============================================== Major-mode and interactive frontend for gnuplot =============================================== More at https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/gnuplot.html ## Summary: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GNUPLOT FOR EMACS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This package allows running [Gnuplot] files from within the [GNU Emacs] editor. It features: • Syntax highlighting and indentation for Gnuplot scripts. • Pull-down menus for common Gnuplot-related tasks. • Interactive Gnuplot sessions using `comint'. • Context-sensitive completion. • Inline display of Gnuplot plots. It is recommended to use GNU Emacs 25 or above, and Gnuplot version 5.0 or above. [Gnuplot] <http://www.gnuplot.info/> [GNU Emacs] <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/> 1 Installation ══════════════ The easiest way to install `gnuplot' is to directly get it from [NonGNU ELPA] or [MELPA]. After configuring Emacs to use MELPA, you ## Recent NEWS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHANGELOG FOR `GNUPLOT.EL' ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1 Version 0.9 (2025-05-30) ══════════════════════════ • Enable `gnuplot-inline-image-mode' by default. • Enable Eldoc messages by default and provide `gnuplot-eldoc.el'. • Made many functions and variables private to ease refactoring in the future. • Remove `gnuplot-prompt-face' since Comint highlights the prompt by default. • Remove `gnuplot-tab-completion' option. Set `tab-always-indent' to `complete' instead. • Remove `gnuplot-eldoc-mode' option. Toggle `eldoc-mode' locally instead. • Unbind `C-c C-c'. Use the default binding `M-;' instead. • Unbind `M-RET' for tab completion. Use the default `M-TAB' instead. • Fix compatibility with Emacs 30 and newer. 2 Version 0.8.1 (Feb 18th 2023) ═══════════════════════════════ List of changes for `gnuplot.el' version 0.8.0 ranging from January 2021 to February 2023. • Fixed the `completion-at-point' function • Improve lazy loading of the gnuplot-gui library • Remove legacy code • Lexical scoping and linting 3 Version 0.8.0 (Jan 3rd 2021) ══════════════════════════════ List of changes for `gnuplot.el' version 0.8.0 ranging from March 2014 to January 2021. • Changed project license to GPLv3. • Greatly simplify the compilation process. • Fix deprecated calls to the `cl' library. • Deprecated XEmacs support. Bump minimal GNU Emacs version to 24.3. • Add a `gnuplot-program-args' variable for passing additional arguments to the gnuplot program binary. • The `gnuplot-inline-image-mode' can now take three values: `nil', `inline', `dedicated'. • Add the `gnuplot-use-context-sensitive-completion' configuration option. • Removed the `gnuplot-bug-report' function. • The provided `gnuplot.info' manual file has been updated for gnuplot version 5.2.6. • Add the `gnuplot-program-args' customization option to pass additional arguments to the gnuplot process. • Use `syntax-proprietize-rules' in gnuplot buffers. • `gnuplot-context-sensitive-mode' is now a normal minor mode. • Enable `completion-at-point' in gnuplot `comint' buffers. • Remove the unused `dotemacs.el' file. • `comint-process-echoes' is now buffer-local. 4 Version 0.7.0 (Oct 20th 2012) ═══════════════════════════════ • Contextual completion & help, inline plots, some other stuff. 5 Version 0.6.0 (Dec 13th 2011) ═══════════════════════════════ • Changed numbering scheme to accommodate gnuplot packaging requirements. • Moved to github, updated contact info. 6 Version 0.5.0 (Sep 16th 2002) ═══════════════════════════════ • Wrote initial draft of gnuplot-gui.el, included it in insertions menu and in `gnuplot-insert'. Negate option function, bound to `C-c C-n'. • `C-c C-h' with no response goes to Commands menu. Transparent toolbar icons. Replace kw-compl with a simple completion function. Put gnuplot-toolbar code in gnuplot.el. • Send file uses the load command. add `gnuplot-plot-from-comint' and `gnuplot-save-and-plot-from-comint' and keybindings in the comint buffer. do `(process-kill-without-query gnuplot-process nil)'. `gnuplot-negate-option' checks if set option has a negated form. • `gnuplot-kill-gnuplot-buffer' made more robust. fixed a bug in `gnuplot-plot-from-comint'. fixed description of gnuplot-faces group. • Update copyright information, update gpelcard • Change installation materials. Add some support for hidden3d. Use constants in types alists in gui. Various other minor improvements to the types alists. • Removed `gnuplot-which-highlight' variable and revamped how colorization gets turned on. This is a bit tricky since I want it to work with font-lock under emacs and xemacs and with hilit19. • Insert space at end of unique completion. add a few GUI types, rewrite some stuff in the GUI interface. primitive support for plot, splot, and fit. Fixed completion in file widget. • Add `pgnuplot.c' and Win9x install instructions to the distribution. Fixed a defface bug. Added `gnuplot-keywords-when' allowing deferral of parsing the info file. • Fixed font-locking of strings and comments. Figure out `gnuplot-version' number from startup message and set `gnuplot-echo-command-line-flag' accordingly. Added … …
