in reply to Vim and You
You might wish to give perl-support.vim by Fritz Mehner a look. More about perl-support.vim here.
HTH,
Perl-support rocks the house. I use that with a couple of other plugins such as autocomplete (to keep the rsi away). I gave a talk to SF.pm where I demonstrated a simple vim IDE I put together using perl-support as the core:
https://www.redhotpenguin.com/svn/vim/