Just realized that I replied only to Gary. Here is how to use vim as perl IDE. VIM-based perl IDE is my favoriate because it saved me lots of time in debugging and in tidying up my code. I used eclipse before and the perl plugin is too buggy and too slow.
Two things you need to do to configure vim for perl: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrzAuLsxgwU 2. perl-support: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=556 Li -- Xue, Li Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research Utrecht University Email: l....@uu.nl Web site: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~lixue/