Can I make a user command non-silent?

Question

Summary

I use a command and it prints a message. When I create a user command that runs the same underlying function, I don't see the message.

Example

The command :Telescope git_status from the Telescope plugin shows information about git status. When there are no git changes, it will print the following message:

No changes found
[telescope.builtin.git_status]: No changes found
Press ENTER or type command to continue

I like this message and I want to see it.

Here is my custom user command:

local telescopeBuiltins = require('telescope.builtin')
vim.api.nvim_create_user_command('Gs',
    function()
        vim.api.nvim_feedkeys(vim.api.nvim_replace_termcodes('<ESC>', true, false, true), 'n', false)
        return telescopeBuiltins.git_status()
    end,
    {bang = true}
)

However, when I run :Gs, I just see nothing on the cmdline. For some reason, the user command is executing "silently" and not showing the error message.

Answer 1

I'm assuming you assigned telescopeBuiltins to require("telescope.builtin"), in which case you should be able to do this:

vim.api.nvim_create_user_command(
    "Gs",
    telescopeBuiltins.git_status,
    { bang = true }
)

If you want to pass arguments to your command, that then get passed to the git_status function, you can wrap it in an anonymous function:

vim.api.nvim_create_user_command(
    "Gs",
    function(tbl) telescopeBuiltins.git_status(tbl.args) end,
    { bang = true, nargs = "?" }
)

Edit: I just wanted to clarify that, when defining a user command, a table of information is passed to the provided function by default (see :help nvim_create_user_command). If you don't want this table passed along to the API call, the call should be wrapped in an anonymous function.