Language-Based Editor

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)