Symbol Search
Searches symbols by name across the indexed projects.
How to run it
Full flag list: query in the CLI reference.
Flags
| Flag | Argument | Meaning | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
--name | <symbol-name> | ||
--db | |||
--json | |||
--case-sensitive | |||
--exact |
Where to click
- RAD Studio main menu: drag-lint > Symbol Search...
Pitfalls
- a project DB IS the compile closure, so a hit is membership and a MISS is non-membership.
- STRING LITERALS, DFM, SQL and COMMENT PROSE -- // { } (* *) and ///. Filter with --kind: literal|const|resourcestring|format|comment|doc|dfm-prop|sql-exception. --kind literal is what this returned before comments were indexed.
Details
Searches symbols by name across the indexed projects. Reach for it to jump to a type, method, or field when you know (or can guess) its name but not its file.
Reaching it in the IDE
drag-lint > Symbol Search...
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+T.
Running it from the CLI
drag-lint query --name <symbol-name> [--db <file.sqlite>] [--json] [--case-sensitive] [--exact]
drag-lint query --qname <qualified> [--db <file.sqlite>] [--json] [--case-sensitive]--name/--qname match case-insensitively by default (--case-sensitive
restores byte-exact matching); --name also accepts a qualified name.
--exact suppresses the fuzzy fallback, so zero rows means "no such
symbol". The same lookup is also exposed over stdio as the language
server's "workspace symbols" method (the Features page lists
it under drag-lint lsp).
What it needs
The --db flag is optional -- drag-lint auto-resolves the index when
omitted. An index must still exist.
Example
Illustrative only:
drag-lint query --name TCustomerOrder --db C:\Projects\MyApp\_D-RAG\MyApp.sqlite --jsonThis would return every symbol named TCustomerOrder (exact or fuzzy) as
JSON.