On Aug 1, 10:18am, Don Harrop wrote:

> I don't want multiple editors.  I want shell sessions..  Emacs wont do that,
> will it?

Sure it will.

M-x shell		- start a shell
C-x 2			- split vertically
C-x 3			- split horizontally

The one fly in the ointment is that I'm not sure how good its terminal
emulation is.  (I.e, I don't know whether you'll be able to run
vi in one of your shell windows within emacs.)