[luatex] lua module search behaviour

[Élie Roux]

>
> Yes. But package.searchers[2] is quite trivial. In lua code, it would
> look like this:
>
> function search (name)
> altname = string.gsub(file,'.','/')
> filename = kpse.find_file(altname, 'lua')
> if not filename then
> filename = kpse.find_file(name, 'lua')
> end
> if not filename then
> return string.format("[kpse lua searcher] file not found: %s", name)
> else
> return loadfile(filename)
> end
> end

Ok, I see. Just out of curiosity, what would the package.searchers[3] 
look like? Well, a pointer to the source file would be enough (I have to 
say I'm a bit lost in LuaTeX sources)...

> Just write a thin wrapper to replace '.' with '/', as above.

Ok.

> That is not possible. It has to return either an error string, or a
> loader function (the result of loadfile()).

Ok.

Thank you!
-- 
Elie