markdownDescription is not respected in extensions' contributions tabs

[Gama11]

• VSCode Version: 1.41.1

VSCode extends the JSON schema for extension settings with a markdownDescription property which takes priority over a normal description. This seems to be why all the descriptions are missing on the "contributions" tab of the Haxe extension:

If I Ctrl+F-replace all the usages with a regular description, it looks good:

Note: if it's too much trouble, it's probably fine to just render markdown descriptions as plain text here, as long as they're rendered at all.

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To reproduce:

"contributes": {
	"configuration": [
		{
			"title": "custom settings",
			"properties": {
				"test": {
					"markdownDescription": "Hello `World`",
					"type": "boolean",
					"default": false
				}
			}
		}
	]
}

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[Gama11]

If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog.

Might as well just close it right away then...

[Gama11]

Why is this considered a feature request btw, rather than a bug?

[sandy081]

Because this is something which was not there before and adding it is a feature

[Gama11]

Well... if the point of markdownDescription is to be an alternative to description, any place where it's ignored would be an oversight / bug in my opinion. I don't even really care that much about this, I only reported it because I thought it's an obvious oversight and you'd be interested in making the behavior consistent.

Anyway, this isn't the sort of thing to get upvoted (let alone 20 times), so I'll just close.

[sandy081]

We were supporting rendering markdown description but it was broken. So fixed it.