Vim

Objectively, vim is the best editor to use for writing code in, except when it isn't. Here are some things to make it better:

Perltidy

This will make pressing F6 tidy the whole file. Alternately, you can use visual mode to select a block to tidy.

" Allow easy running of perltidy when editing a perl file, bound to 'Ctrl+t' 
:au Filetype perl nnoremap <C-t> :%!perltidy -q -npro<CR>                                                            
:au Filetype perl vnoremap <C-t> <line1>,<line2>!perltidy -q -npro<CR>

With this, pressing Ctrl+t will tidy the whole file.

However, using V to select a block, pressing Ctrl+t will only tidy that block.

This is good for cleaning up the code around where you've been working if it's not adhering to a style.

Some info on Koha's offical perltidy style is here

Perl-support

Perl-support adds many Perl helper functions to your environment, giving you quick access to all sorts of useful things. There's also a handy printable key reference list there.

Perl-debugging

See Debugging in VIM for a guide to setting up interactive debbuging from within vim.

.vimrc

Here are a number of nice additions one can put in .vimrc

" This set's up vim plugins, and installs some plugins that are useful for Koha development using VIM<span class="co1" /><span class="kw1">
if empty(glob('~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim'))
  silent !curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs
    \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
  autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall --sync | source $MYVIMRC
endif</span><br><span class="kw1">
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'vim-perl/vim-perl'
Plug 'scrooloose/syntastic'
Plug 'bling/vim-airline'
Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
Plug 'prettier/vim-prettie
call plug#end()

"set syntax highlighting on by default
syntax on

"Add line numbers along the left-hand side of the screen
set number

" size of a hard tabstop
set tabstop=4

" size of an "indent"
set shiftwidth=4

" a combination of spaces and tabs are used to simulate tab stops at a width
" other than the (hard)tabstop
set softtabstop=4

" make "tab" insert indents instead of tabs at the beginning of a line
set smarttab

" always uses spaces instead of tab characters
set expandtab

" always show filename at the bottom of the screen
set modeline
set ls=2

"define :Tidy command to run perltidy on visual selection || entire buffer"
command -range=% -nargs=* Tidy <line1>,<line2>!perltidy

"run :Tidy on entire buffer and return cursor to (approximate) original position"
fun DoTidy()
    let Pos = line2byte( line( "." ) )
     :Tidy
    exe "goto " . Pos
endfun

"shortcut for normal mode to run on entire buffer then return to current line"
au Filetype perl nmap <F6> :call DoTidy()<CR>

"shortcut for visual mode to run on the the current visual selection"
au Filetype perl vmap <F5> :Tidy<CR>

" Enable HTML syntax highlighting for Template Toolkit files
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.tt set filetype=html

"Assuming autoindent and smartindent are set correctly, typing Ctrl + Return between braces will put your cursor where you want it to be.
set autoindent
set cindent

" The following allows Vim to jump to the last position when reopening a file
if has("autocmd")
  au BufReadPost * if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") | exe "normal! g'\"" | endif
endif