From: tsuraan <tsuraan@...>
Date: 2005-04-30T04:54:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Emacs vs. VI vs. IDE

> what features do a "properly embedded shell" have that a simple
> "screen"-split at console (or simply multiple windows open) do not? I'm
> not being sarcastic, i just want to know what i could be missing...

Probably not a lot.  Sometimes when I'm coding, I'll have the screen 
arranged in quarters, and having one of those quarters be a console 
would be useful.  Being able to copy and paste from the console to 
something that you're working on is nice (I tend to use gpm for this, 
but using vim's copy-paste buffers would be more consistent).  It's 
nothing serious; I use vim full time, so I obviously don't consider it 
to be a show-stopper.  I'd just be really happy if having a console in 
vim were possible.