As you mentioned, an editor template would probably be the best solution to this.

Another solution (at least under Unix) is to say:

> alias perl='perl -MData::Dumper'

> perl -e 'print Dumper({foo=>"bar"})'
$VAR1 = {
          'foo' => 'bar'
        };
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