Turning mermaid on requires the app to restart

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I just installed the beta and was trying to read some dev plan documentation that I built that included a mermaid chart. It didn't render. I presumed, based on previous versions that there was just a rendering config to turn on. I was correct.

As a side note seeing triple-backtick mermaid in the content would be cool place for a chip that takes you to the config to turn on mermaid.

Anyway, I turned it on, pressed refresh at the settings, still no mermaid.

Quitting and restarting the app did render the mermaid chart.

Using the product more, I wonder if the actual issue was that it takes a little time to render the mermaid chart. If that's the case, maybe this is a feature request to have some sort of a "mermaid chart loading" indicator.

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I've circumvented this issue in Marked 3 --- Mermaid is always enabled now. This was part of my new features for including mind maps and outlines (iThoughts, MindManager, Omni Outliner, Bike, etc.) as diagrams in Markdown documents. Mermaid is very lightweight and I figured I'd just embed it by default.