in reply to which perl ide should i use ... or how to setup emacs for perl dev
You could try out Devel::PerlySense and see what you think.
Also, take a look at the Shell Archive for some cool Emacs tricks, especially prove.el (mode for highlighting and folding test run output), and project-root (to run things from the correct root directory).
/J
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