I use tmux and either tmuxinator or teamocil to accomplish this. I use vim as my editor so it just works within the shell. Each project can have its own tmuxin

I use tmux and either tmuxinator or teamocil to accomplish this. I use vim as my editor so it just works within the shell. Each project can have its own tmuxinator config and load up tmux with a number of shells. There is even native tmux support built into iTerm2 but I haven't used it.