Re: Does $DATADIR work?

[John MACFARLANE <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

You could always alias pandoc to 'pandoc --datadir whatever'.

+++ BillS [Oct 18 17 11:28 ]:
>   Thank you John,
>   The symlink approach is not flexible enough for our situation, but we
>   can tell folk to to use the --data-dir argument.
>   Thanks for the help.
>   On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 8:52:54 AM UTC-7, John MacFarlane
>   wrote:
>
>     $DATADIR appears in the manual just as a placeholder for
>     whatever your user data directory is (see --data-dir).
>     The environment variable has no effect.  I've made a tweak
>     in the manual to make that clearer.
>     Note that the default user data dir is ~/.pandoc (on *nix),
>     so if you just symlink that wherever you like, that's the
>     most convenient solution.
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