On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 7:32:16 PM UTC-5, 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.
>

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.