You nailed it. Do you know of any editors which work this way, except emacs?

drdaeman · on April 3, 2014

Unfortunately, not many.

I've heard LightTable is doing something like this, but never had a time to properly evaluate it and see for myself.

Also, JetBrains' IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, etc.) are notorious to have good understanding of code semantics, both out of the box and through plugin system.