Amazingly, the answer is in one of the Perl FAQ documents. perlfaq3 provides insight as well as a working web link:

Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?

Perl programs are just plain text, so any editor will do.

If you're on Unix, you already have an IDE--Unix itself. The UNIX philosophy is the philosophy of several small tools that each do one thing and do it well. It's like a carpenter's toolbox.

If you want an IDE, check the following (in alphabetical order, not order of preference):

Eclipse

http://e-p-i-c.sf.net/

The Eclipse Perl Integration Project integrates Perl editing/debugging with Eclipse.

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Thanks! :) The problem I guess is that it really doesn't appear to be promoted on the Eclipse page. That or I'm just not very observant.

Jason L. Froebe

Team Sybase member

No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1

jdtoronto

Perl Development Tools have a resume of Eclipse + e-p-i-c.

Hi Jason,
check out also the nice http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/lamp.html.
It is a packaged version of Eclipse + e.p.i.c. + many other things, I believe, which works quite well.

I tried it after several failed attempts to install Eclipse + e.p.i.c., and I found it as easy as running ./eclipse from the command line!

I still have some doubts on using Eclipse at all, but nevertheless it's worth trying... ;-)