KELBT(1)

✨ KELBT(1) ✨

ok so like. bestie. welcome to kelbt, the backtracking LR parser generator 🦋 — and yeah, it's in section 1 of the manual, so we're doing the whole thing properly, no skips, no shortcuts, periodt. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

kelbt — generate backtracking LR parsers 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kelbt [options]files

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so, real talk: this manual page is very briefly documenting kelbt, a backtracking LR parser generator. Like, briefly briefly. It's giving "trailer, not the movie" 😭 — for an actual good reference on how to use it, go look at the examples that come with it, and also the paper at:

https://www.colm.net/files/kelbt/thurston_CASCON_06_btlr.pdf

that's the one, that's the source, iykyk 📄✨

🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

kay so here's the whole menu, every single one, no gatekeeping 🎀

• -h, -H, -?, --help — prints the usage and then exits, bye 👋
• -v, --version — prints version info and exits, slay 💅
• -o file — writes output to file 📝
• -V — generates a Graphviz dotfile 📊 (yes we're making a graph, main character energy)
• -i — shows branch point info 🌿
• -t — forces top-down with unique empty productions 🔥
• -l — inhibits writing of #line directives 🚫

not me noticing the original page crammed a bunch of these onto one line — we're doing one bullet per option here because you deserve better, bestie 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

kelbt was written by Adrian Thurston <thurston@cs.queensu.ca>. iconic of him fr fr 🌟

that's the whole page!! 🎀 this was Kelbt 0.12, from way back in May 2007, and it's the KELBT(1) page — go forth and generate those backtracking LR parsers, you absolute legend 🦋💖