I see others have queried about what ide to use with perl.

Without wanting to sound too presumptuous, I fully expect the answer to be 'emacs' .... though my mind is open to any and all suggestions.

For those of the emacs persuasion, is there any top tips, dotfiles, tutorials/links (up to date) or extensions (like this) that they would recommend ?

update I was surprised by this ..... there are much more perl people using vi then I imagined!