Re: mode to allow eg vi or vim WITHIN *SHELL* -- forgot its name

[Kevin Rodgers]

David Combs wrote:
> What was the name of it?   (And where to find it, too?)

The Emacs Manual, of course.  From the Shell node:

,----
| Running Shell Commands from Emacs
| =================================
|
|    Emacs has commands for passing single command lines to inferior shell
| processes; it can also run a shell interactively with input and output
| to an Emacs buffer named `*shell*' or run a shell inside a terminal
| emulator window.
|
|    There is a shell implemented entirely in Emacs, documented in a
| separate manual.  *Note Eshell: (eshell)Top.
|
| `M-! CMD <RET>'
|      Run the shell command line CMD and display the output
|      (`shell-command').
|
| `M-| CMD <RET>'
|      Run the shell command line CMD with region contents as input;
|      optionally replace the region with the output
|      (`shell-command-on-region').
|
| `M-x shell'
|      Run a subshell with input and output through an Emacs buffer.  You
|      can then give commands interactively.
|
| `M-x term'
|      Run a subshell with input and output through an Emacs buffer.  You
|      can then give commands interactively.  Full terminal emulation is
|      available.
|
| `M-x eshell'
|      Start the Emacs shell.
`----

That node's menu has a link to the Terminal Emulator and Term Mode
subnodes, which document M-x term more fully.

--
Kevin Rodgers