--to beamer should use LaTeX template file

[Wandmalfarbe]

When using --template name, pandoc automatically picks the right template depending on the output format.

• --template default --to html5 uses default.html5
• --template default --to man uses default.man

Since the default LaTeX and beamer template are merged into one file I would expect that - --template default --to beamer uses the template name.latex.

But the command

pandoc --from markdown --template default --to beamer document.md

fails with an error:

Could not find data file templates/default.beamer

[jgm]

I think it's probably best to keep current behavior, which is consistent with what the manual says.
Changing would be a breaking change, and some people might have templates they use just with beamer. It's not that hard to say default.latex in this case. Or, if you have a custom beamer/latex template, custom.latex, you can symlink it to custom.beamer, so that it will work with either.