Problem:
When displaying a mermaid diagram in a markdown file for the second time, the image of the display actually doesn't get displayed.
This seems to be caused by line breaks. Here is a minimal file:
foo
```mermaid
graph TD
write-->world[hello<br/>world]
```
bar
If you look in the cache directory ~/.cache/JetBrains/PyCharm2020.3/markdown/MermaidCodeGeneratingProviderExtension/<some random id> you will see that the svg actually gets written out as
...
hello<br>world
...
Which I guess then can't be parsed back when reading the cached file (at least firefox throws an error).
Workaround:
Disable the caching
rm -Rf ~/.cache/JetBrains/PyCharm2020/markdown/MermaidCodeGeneratingProviderExtension/*
chmod 555 ~/.cache/JetBrains/PyCharm2020.3/markdown/MermaidCodeGeneratingProviderExtension
Learned:
The caching directory is a good source for rendered mermaid svgs (in theory)
I filled a bug: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-265268