System wide env variables not used in substitute

[antoine-morisseau]

I'm using Intellij Idea IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1 (Community Edition)
Build #IC-191.6183.87, built on March 27, 2019
JRE: 1.8.0_202-release-1483-b39 x86_64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
macOS 10.14.4

The envFile plugin is the v3.1.0.

I tried to retrieve some system env variable like ${USER} in the substitute env variable.
So i'm trying to do something like that.
ENV_NAME=local_${USER}

And in my application i only get ENV_NAME=local_
I have checked the <Run Configuration Env Vars> and placed it on top but it's still not working.
It seems the EnvFile plugin is not including the selected option

[ashald]

What about the application when it runs? Does it see the USER environment variable?

[antoine-morisseau]

yes, that's the weirdest part.
in intellij in the run configuration the "Include system environment variables" is selected by default.
and when debugging the application i tried to see the USER env variable and it worked.
But when using the plugin for substitute it didn't work.

It seems the plugin only substitute variable with defined env variable in other env file selected not system wide env variables

[ashald]

Took me a while to figure it out as it was working in PyCharm but then I realized IDEA is a little bit different from all other JetBrains IDEs. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Fixed in v3.1.1, I'm submitting an update to JetBrains and meantime you can install latest version from an archive directly https://github.com/ashald/EnvFile/releases/tag/v3.1.1

[pswaminathan]

This same issue appears to be happening in GoLand—I'm encountering with the ${USER} variable as well. Plugin version v3.2.0.

GoLand 2019.2.5
Build #GO-192.7142.48, built on November 7, 2019
Runtime version: 11.0.4+10-b304.77 x86_64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
macOS 10.15.1