For the series "I Can Survive Without Knowing This", how to toggle line numbers on vim: :se nu! You can enable automatically line numbers in your vimrc by adding 'se nu', or to make it a little more readable, 'set number'.
If you like me are annoyed by the "recording" feature on vim (or better, by the way you can accidentally start it), then you may find at least useful to learn how it can be actually used. This post explains it .
I've seen this poll too late, although it's interesting that the most used Perl editor is the vi family (where I'd belong) with 34%, followed not very closely by Emacs (13%). Eclipse + EPIC got only 6%... The full poll results here .