Thanks for the replies guys. It's certainly not my intention to start an "editor holy war" either, lol. I know this is a touchy subject and I wouldn't just point-blank ask what editor to use... I have a more specific problem and figured that some IDE would do this well. Specifically a Windows IDE which allows me to edit remote Perl files and debug/run them using the remote environment.

I did half expect that the simplest solution (as your replies recommended) is to just ssh into the box and use some good plugins with CLI editors.