ghost check

ghost-check

Compiles a project with one or more units' content temporarily replaced by their unsaved editor buffers, then restores the original files unchanged. Reach for it to get compiler diagnostics against unsaved edits without saving them to disk.

Running it from the CLI

drag-lint ghost-check <dproj> ( --unit <real.pas> --buffer <buf> | --overlays <manifest> ) [--platform win32|win64] [--format json|text]

<dproj> is the project to compile. Give either a single --unit <real.pas> --buffer <buf> pair, or an --overlays <manifest> file listing multiple real-path/buffer-path pairs. --platform selects win32 or win64. --format selects json or text.

Reaching it in the IDE

No menu item calls this directly. The plugin's editor code (Editor.pas:2489) shells out to this verb to compile the active project against unsaved buffer content, backing "Compile Buffer (unsaved)" and feeding "Compile & Diagnose".

What it needs

Not needed, per the feature map's Index column.

Example

Illustrative only:

drag-lint ghost-check C:\Projects\MyApp\MyApp.dproj --unit C:\Projects\MyApp\frmOrders.pas --buffer C:\Projects\MyApp\_D-RAG\frmOrders.buf --platform win32 --format json

This would compile MyApp.dproj with frmOrders.pas's content replaced by the buffer file, report diagnostics as JSON, then restore frmOrders.pas unchanged.