Support PATH environment variables when searching for tools

[giggio]

Describe the solution you'd like

I have several tools installed with Chocolatey that end up on my path, but are not indexed by Flow Launcher, and also other tools that I drop at ~/bin, for example. I need Flow Launcher to find those.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Windows+R and the shell plugin both work, but they don't auto complete.

Additional context

Using latest version, 1.1.2.

[jjw24]

I think I might know what the issue is, so I can repro and test, can you give me a tool as an example

[giggio]

Sure, just download any tool which Chocolatey. I use Sysinternals: https://chocolatey.org/packages/sysinternals

If you don't want to install Chocolatey, just download "Process Explorer" directly (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer) and add it to your path somehow. I suggest creating a tools directory somewhere (like 'c:\tools'), add it there, and add to the path.

[Jaykul]

Yeah, I came to ask for this.

We can work around this (on a case-by-case basis) by manually adding C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey\bin to the Programs plugin. But really, the Proram plugin should (have a checkbox to) automatically search all the folders in my PATH environment variable (and should re-parse that variable on startup each time)

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