Built-in Markdown shortcut disappeared

Question

The built-in VSCode markdown preview simply disappeared on my installed copy.

Has anyone seen something like that before that can show me where I can find a solution?

By "disappeared" I mean it doesn't show up on context menu nor in the list shown after pressing ctrl+shift+p.

Updated

• 1. The problem started because I decided to get rid of unnecessary VSCode plugins. Previously I was using Markdown Preview Enhanced and decided to use the built-in markdown preview.
• 2. I've already tried to uninstall/reinstall VSCode and it made no difference: it's still not showing the markdown preview.

Answer 1

I had the same issue after uninstalling the extension Markdown Preview Enhanced and solved this problem on my system Ubuntu 20.04 with VSCode 1.52.0 the following way:

Solution, there might be better ones:

1. I checked the location of the global VSCode user settings.json file. It is located at ~/.config/Code/User/settings.json. Then I deleted the folder ~/.config/Code/.
2. Then I started VSCode again and the preview button appeared.

Things I tried first, but did not solve the problem:

• Uninstalling and reinstalling VSCode did not solve the problem.
• Also deleting the folder ~\.vscode did not help.

Answer 2

So try reinstall VSCode or install some extension for Markdown, for example, Markdown Preview Enhanced.