How do I find a node on my machine?

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I'm on a quest.

In the left of the screen I see a node. Alas its name isn't congruent with what it really is.

How do I find this node in the CLI?
I want to go in and edit it. I have done this before but can't remember back that far to where it is.

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Well, you may feel it's name is incongruous, but with out sharing it, you are limiting our ability to point you in a definitive direction.

It might be a core node. It might be a contrib node you've installed. We dont know.

Assuming it isn't a core node, then it will most likely be under ~/.node-red/node_modules.

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Sorry. Not it is not a core node.

It is ..... from:

PiFace CAD.

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Ok, so start with ~/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-contrib-pifacecad

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(Big blush... )

Guess what.... You are right. (When aren't you?)

Oh dear. Sorry. Just in the edit screen it is just called pfc_lcd and that is for what I was searching. Silly me.

To stop me making the same mistake again, is there a way I can edit the code so it shows up in the edit screen as pifacecad?
Scratch that. I am looking and I think that would require a lot of work.

I think I had just better write it down on a piece of paper.

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Or you could just use the palette manager, search for pfc_lcd and would have found the package in question. :wink:

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Yes, but the node name - which I now know has to be set to something - wasn't pfc_lcd. It was just display.

So when I opened it and saw "display", it threw me.

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The package + registered node name is also displayed in the palette tooltip. (checked on NR 1.1)

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I know now.

I hope I don't repeat the mistake in the future.

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