Accidentally broke the extension and now have no way of reverting (re-installing doesn't work)

[matronator]

I have accidentally broke the extension and can't revert it even after uninstalling and installing again.

After coding in Cursor for a while, I opened my project in VSCode again and noticed some of my files reported errors due to using undefined functions from the standard library. I run "go version" in my terminal and see that it's 1.24, but the extension uses 1.15 from /usr/local/go/bin/. I wanted to change the version, so I clicked the extension icon and select "Change Go Environment" > "Select from file" and there I f***ed up, because I instead selected the gopls binary instead of the go binary.

And now I can't get it back, any command from the extension I try gives me an error and also I don't see any option in settings that can help me.

What do I do?

[h9jiang]

Have you tried to use Command Pallette command Go: Choose Go Environment

You can first try to clear the selection and re-select. (Or just re-select, I think it will overwrite the previuos gopls you selected)

Update: 09-25 1:00 PM
NVM, I try to re-produce your problem. Looks like once I set gopls as go, the extension keeps saying activating and the command I mentioned above does not have any effect.

This is not suppose to happen. Let me investigate on this issue and see how can I recover from it and what instructions can I provide for you to recover from it. (I can't make it work too.)

Update: 09-25 2:00 PM
The extension stop working when running gopls version. When I try to do the same in terminal, it get killed.

 ~ gopls version 
[1]    50575 killed     gopls version

However, if completely quite the vscode, the problem goes away. And if I re-open vscode, I'm able to use the command Go: Choose Go Environment to pick the right go binary.