[texworks] Why is $PATH ignored?

[Jérome Laurens]

On 3 oct. 08, at 08:36, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:

> [...]
> PPS: I still don't understand why apps like kile or texmaker can get  
> the
> right path and texworks doesn't. They must determine their environment
> differently somehow...
>

They explicitly forward their own PATH to the process they create.

TeXWorks should also support the TEXEDIT and MPEDIT environment  
variables,
which also means that TeXWorks should be able to respond to messages  
sent by other apps.