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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

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)