[gedit-list] environment variables and the external tools plugin

[Ernesto Posse <eposse gmail com>]

I've noticed that the External Tools plugin seems to ignore the values
of existing environment variables (PATH to be precise) and executes a
tool in an empty environment with some default values for variables
such as PATH. Is this intentional, or is it a bug?

Personally this behaviour is a serious limitation of External tools,
since sometimes you want to execute tools which are on your PATH but
not in the predefined default path.

If it is not a bug, is there any way to access those variables?

Thanks.

PS: I'm running gedit on Ubuntu 10.10

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Ernesto Posse

Modelling and Analysis in Software Engineering
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada