Bug#977339: pandoc: `data-dir` or `XDG_DATA_HOME` don't appear to work for --defaults

[Kapil Paranjape <kapil.paranjape@gmail.com>]

Oops! Thanks!

As you pointed out, I misread the manual page.

Once the file was moved to $HOME/.local/share/pandoc/defaults/options.yaml it was found and it worked!

Marking this bug as done.

Regards,

Kapil.

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On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 22:37, John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> wrote:

The man page says:

> The file will be searched for first in the working directory, and then in
> the `defaults` subdirectory of the user data directory

It looks as if you've put your options.yaml directly in the user
data directory rather than in the defaults subdirectory of that
directory: try `$HOME/.local/share/pandoc/defaults/options.yaml`.