nedit used to be my text editor of choice. I now prefer SciTE; it has more reliable Perl syntax highlighting (I often found nedit couldn't find the end of a string or regexp) and an integrated panel for displaying shell output, so if I'm editing a Perl script, I just need to save it and hit F5 to show the output at the bottom of my editing screen.
My only slight gripe is that the regular expression engine used by SciTE's search and replace is not quite as advanced as nedit's. But I can always copy and paste into a nedit window for advanced search and replace. (Or just run Perl or sed over the file.)
perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'