Searching for Packages

lde search finds packages by name and description across the lde registry and luarocks.

lde search json

Found 76 packages matching 'json':
🪨 json-logic-lua (0.5.0-1)
🪨 json-lua (0.1-4)
🪨 json-rock (2.0-4)
...

Results

• Packages from lde’s registry are shown and prioritized.
• Luarocks packages are shown as a fallback and marked with a rock emoji (🪨) to distinguish them.
• By default the first 10 results are shown, but you can pass --all to show all results.

Interactive installs

When you run lde search in a terminal, it allows you to select a package using arrow keys to navigate up and down results.

Pressing enter will do one of two things:

1. If you are inside of an existing lde project, it will lde add it to your dependencies.
2. If you are not inside of an existing lde project, it will lde install it as a global tool.

You exit the prompt by pressing q or esc.

Luarocks-only search

lde search rocks:<query> searches luarocks only:

lde search rocks:json

The rock emoji

Emoji need a terminal font with emoji glyphs. lde disables the 🪨 marker when the terminal reports TERM=dumb/TERM=linux, when the locale isn’t UTF-8, or when NO_EMOJI is set (any value except 0) — rock rows then show a plain R marker instead.