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in reply to .vimrc for perl programmers

I can't live without perltidy:

" Tidy selected lines (or entire file) with _t: nnoremap <silent> _t :%!perltidy -q<Enter> vnoremap <silent> _t :!perltidy -q<Enter>

That lets you highlight some text and hit _t to run it through perltidy and pretty up your code. I often use it in conbination with some of the highlight commands: