Emacs doesn't really have a terminal emulator, and terminal graphics are mostly unusable in emacs. Shell and ansi-term are there for when you cannot avoid some

Emacs doesn't really have a terminal emulator, and terminal graphics are mostly unusable in emacs. Shell and ansi-term are there for when you cannot avoid some shell-fu. I use it mostly for VCS operations that cannot be done with VC, and nowadays building Emacs 25 pretests. I use dired instead of ls, proced instead of h?top|ps, but for a sysadmin these are not viable, I understand. I do not use magit because I do not only use git, and VC allows me to use Git, RCS and CVS easily without learning different emacs interfaces for each.