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language-sensitive 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.

Last updated: 1995-02-15

Nearby terms:

Language Sensitive Editor ♦ language-sensitive editor ♦ languages of choice

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