Hi Spidy.

You might like GNU nano. It's syntax highlighting is pretty basic (a handful of regexes that color what they match -- last match wins), but works well enough most of the time.

You might not want to be too picky about how agressively your editor syntax-highlights Perl though. It's very tough to do it correctly. It's been often said that only perl can parse Perl, and syntax-highlighting it requires parsing it to some degree.