I find that vim and bash make for a powerful and flexable IDE.
begin rant
Why does anyone need Visual anything?
M$ needs it to make money and that about the extent
of the usefulness of these Visual IDE ... tools. end rant
If it was similar to Borland's Delphi, it would be a great
tool. Not all graphical tools are bad. I use 'gvim' on
both Winnt and Linux, but if Borland came out with a
Perl IDE, I'd definitely take a look at it. I'd want it
to run on non-Windows OSes though.