Executing shortcuts throw "not an editor command" for common Telescope actions

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#421 opened on Feb 9, 2024 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 52/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Clearly specified
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: lua
Domain: tooling

Research direction

Start with the dashboard shortcut configuration and the action entry point shown in the reproduction, using the Hyper example from the README as context. Reproduce the Telescope find_files shortcut on the specified Neovim version and inspect how dashboard-nvim executes actions. Done means the shortcut opens Telescope's find_files action without the editor-command error.

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Description

Describe the bug
I've setup some shortcuts like in the Hyper example in the README, including f for Telescope find_files. When executing this from the dashboard, however, I get an error message Not an editor command: Telescope find_files

Using nvim version v0.10.0-dev-2296+gcca8a78ea2

To Reproduce

Use latest nvimdev/dashboard-nvim commit (04a48b2)
Set a shortcut in the dashboard-nvim config like so:

{
  icon = " ",
  icon_hl = "@variable",
  desc = "Files",
  group = "Label",
  action = "Telescope find_files",
  key = "f",
},

Restart nvim and press f on the keyboard.

Expected behavior
Opens Telescope with find_files command

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