I moved away from a hand-rolled configuration and switched to Doom not long ago. After several years of basic functionality, I suddenly found myself with multitudes of modules all loading much faster than my previous config. I couldn't believe I'd waited so long.

And then it all came crashing down. I found org-spec, which I absolutely want to use professionally. But ob-ditaa... My understanding is that if I set a variable, defcustom should leave that alone. This isnt' happening. Perhaps then (after! ob-ditaa ...) will override the default and I'll be able to export.

Please, help me set this in Doom so I don't have to evaluate it each time.

I have tried this:

(after! ob-ditaa ;; I've tried org here as well (setq org-ditaa-jar-path (dt/trim-last-newline (shell-command-to-string "which ditaa"))))

And, actually, ditaa is on my path, so I've done this as well:

(setq org-ditaa-jar-path "ditaa")

This is in my .doom.d/config.el. And when Emacs starts, that's what it is set to, but when I dispatch to export, it's set back to the defcustom specified in ob-ditaa.el.

I did search far and wide for someone with a config that has this. I've found a few, but nothing seems to work.

• https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/20731/setting-up-ditaa-in-org-mode
• https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/develop/modules/lang/org/config.el#L310-L314
• https://github.com/nmartin84/.doom.d/blob/master/config.el#L893