> but vim has a much shorter start-up time, so it works better for quick edit jobs.

try emacs -nw -Q (I have this aliased to emq in my linux environments)

running emacsclient helps too.

> As it is, I just turn on line and column display in the modeline and scroll.

Still, the necessity to read the error line and file from the terminal to manually jump to the error inside emacs would drive me crazy. Probably your scripts are rather short, my projects span a douzen of modules.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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