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.)