doc/todo/configurable_markdown_path.mdwn



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summary
Make it easy to configure the Markdown implementation used by the
[[plugins/mdwn]] plugin.  With this patch, you can set the path to an
external Markdown executable in your ikiwiki config file.  If you do
not set a path, the plugin will use the usual config options to
determine which Perl module to use.

This adds a configuration in which a new process has to be worked
for every single page rendered. Actually, it doesn't only add
such a configuration, it makes it be done by default.
Markdown is ikiwiki's default, standard renderer. A configuration
that makes it slow will make ikiwiki look bad.
I would not recommend using Gruber's perl markdown. It is old, terminally
buggy, and unmaintained. --[[Joey]] [[!tag reviewed]]