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Feature request: ---pandoc PATH/TO/EXECUTABLE and/or check PANDOC_PATH env variable #30

Closed bpj closed 7 years ago

bpj commented 7 years ago

I just decided to be crazy enough to try a pandoc-nightly build to work around a bug in the stable release of Pandoc, but found that unless I'm not also crazy enough to drop it into ~/bin/ under the name pandoc I can't use it with panzer! What about adding a ---pandoc PATH/TO/EXECUTABLE option and/or check the PANDOC_PATH environment variable like Pandoc-Wrapper aka Pandoc.pm does[^1]?

Personally I would be perfectly happy with the env variable, but Windows users might not agree!

(I could also do some symling shenanigans which is what I in the end did, but moving around/renaming symlinks isn't any more fun than renaming/moving around executables in the long run!)

[^1]: By my suggestion I have to admit, at that time because I used a wrapper script. In principle you could make Pandoc.pm invoke panzer!

msprev commented 7 years ago

This is a good suggestion and was relatively easy to implement. I've added a ---pandoc command line option as suggested that allows you to specify a pandoc executable. It's now in the latest commit. Please let me know if you have any problems.

bpj commented 7 years ago

Thanks!