I've actually started using vim with its :term feature as a terminal manager. So, I'll run screen (and tmux should work as well), and then run vim in a single

I've actually started using vim with its :term feature as a terminal manager. So, I'll run screen (and tmux should work as well), and then run vim in a single window. Then I can run :term to open a terminal window within vim and then use use different terminal windows to do my work. As far as I know, M-x shell doesn't allow for running multiple shell buffers in emacs, but :term in vim will allow you to do so.