How do I use a shell command as a filter?

[Benoît Allard]

Dave Hinton wrote:
> I am using hgwebdir.cgi to make my repositories visible on the web.
> Some of my files are in markdown format, so I would like to be able to
> view them as filtered by markdown into html.  (At some point I might
> like to set up syntax colouring on my source files too, but not yet.)

Have a look at the highlight extension [1] to colorize your source 
files. It shouldn't be too difficult to do such an extension to format 
your files.

> I'm using mercurial version 0.9.1, as comes with Debian stable (etch).

I would update to a backport version [2] of mercurial at least, 0.9.1 
has dozen of known issues ...

Regards,
Benoit

[1] http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/HighlightExtension
[2] 
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/BinaryPackages#head-aa2110ba4ae4d940113876eaf16ce163cd197c90
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