What are your suggestions for an ideal Vim configuration for Perl development?

Question

There are a lot of threads pertaining to how to configure Vim/GVim for Perl development on PerlMonks.org. My purpose in posting this question is to try to create, as much as pos

Answer 1

From chromatic's blog (slightly adapted to be able to use the same mapping from all modes).

vmap ,pt :!perltidy 
nmap ,pt :%! perltidy

hit ,pt in normal mode to clean up the whole file, or in visual mode to clean up the selection. You could also add:

imap ,pt :%! perltidy

But using commands from input mode is not recommended.