This is a small plugin for Sublime Text 2. It automatically compiles a saved .tex to the same directory. You have to save 'compiletexonsave.py' to '~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/CompileTexOnSave/compiletexonsave.py' or similar based on your OS (mine is OSX). To enable auto compiling you have to edit your Sublime project s…

compiletexonsave.py

import sublime
import sublime_plugin
import subprocess
import os
from threading import Thread


#####
# The main compile method using the command line to navigate to the saved files directory
# and calling 'pdflatex' on the saved file. 
#####
def compile(inputFile, outputFolder):
	# Create the commands
	cmd = "cd {0}; /usr/texbin/pdflatex {1}".format(outputFolder, inputFile)
	# Exectute them
	proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, close_fds=True)
	# Print TeX output
	print proc.communicate()[0]


class CompileTexOnSave(sublime_plugin.EventListener):

	def on_post_save(self, view):
		# Check if the saved file is a .tex-file and compiling is enabled in the project settings
		fileType = (view.syntax_name(view.sel()[0].b)).split().pop()
		should_compile = view.settings().get('compile_tex_on_save')
		if fileType == 'text.tex.latex' and should_compile == 1:
			# Determine file name and output directory
			fileName = os.path.split(view.file_name())[1]
			folder = view.window().folders()[0]
			print 'Will compile', fileName, 'to', folder
			# Start compiling in new thread
			t = Thread(target=compile, args=(fileName, folder))
			t.start()

gistfile1.txt

{
	"folders":
	[
		{
			"path": "/The/Path/To/Your/Project"
		}
	],
	"settings":
	{
		"compile_tex_on_save": 1
	}
}