LkbEmacs

Overview

The LKB is a stand-alone grammar development environment and can be used in connection with any text editor. The basic engineering cycle is similar to software development: a set of source files (aka a grammar) is maintained using a text editor and then compiled for run-time use in the LKB system. At the same time, integrating the LKB with the emacs editor brings certain advantages, among them ease of start-up, editing support for LKB grammar files, and some additional debugging facilities.

Extending the terse discussion from the LkbInstallation page (which hopefully just worked for you), the following paragraphs provide some more background on using the LKB with emacs, including help on running a Lisp environment as a sub-process to emacs (so as to compile the LKB source code).