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(X)Emacs (Score:1)
- Auto-indent. Not the lame kind, but the kind that looks at your context to see if you are in the middle of a loop or a conditional and adjusts. Emacs is the only one I've seen do this right. All I ever do is hit tab and my code is properly indented.
- Syntax highlighting. Must understand POD, recognize regexes, understand Perl's quoting. etc. None of them are perfect at this, but Emacs is the best I've seen.
- Block comment/uncomment.
- Re-flow comments that wrap lines. Emcas does this with Alt-Q.
There are other nice features in Emacs, like CVS integration, browse/edit remotely via FTP, debugger integration, and auto-completion, but honestly I don't use those much. I suspect vim has these too, but I can never get it out of beep mode.All of the IDEs I've tried failed on the very first requirement: they suck at auto-indent. Eclipse is also slower than dirt, or was when I had to use it at work for some Java stuff last year.
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