The alias method mentioned above should solve the problem.

On Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 2:54:05 AM UTC+8, Luis Rivera wrote:
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> On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 7:32:16 PM UTC-5, John MacFarlane wrote:
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>> > 
>> >     $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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> Would it be possible to implement that feature, i.e. define a custom 
> $PDDATADIR environment variable to place the data anywhere in my $HOME 
> directory? I'm in the weird situation of running pandoc on cygwin on 
> windows, and it would be easier to add something to bashrc to tell pandoc 
> where to look for templates and csl styles and forget omit the --data-dir 
> option, unless I require it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luis.
>

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