Language Sensitive Editor

(LSE) A language-sensitive editor from DEC.

(15 Feb 1995)


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.

(15 Feb 1995)