You should check out the Perl Development Tools Editor/IDE comparison chart to find the answers you seek.

With that said, I'm amazed that vi/vim and emacs are being so highly recommended. Both are complex and hard to learn. Given that you are currently going to be a "casual" Linux user neither seem appropriate. [ Though learning some basic vi/vim might be a good idea if you expect more exposre to UNIX/Linux/BSD environments as it is usually the only editor you can safely assume will be there. ]

Some editors that would (imo) be more suitable are the underrated NEdit, the very popular EPIC (which also runs on Windows), and for KDE desktop users the popular KDevelop. Based on your post I would suggest you give NEdit a try first (good feature set and it should be easy to install).

In reply to Re: Any good Perl Editors for Linux? by Argel
in thread Any good Perl Editors for Linux? by perleager

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