language-sensitive editor

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language-sensitive editor - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  language-sensitive editor
  language-based editor
  
     An editor that is aware of the syntactic, semantic and in some
     cases the structural rules of a specific programming language
     and provides a framework for the user to enter source code.
     Programs or changes to previously stored programs are
     incrementally parsed into an abstract syntax tree and
     automatically checked for correctness.
  
     (1995-02-15)