Nevertheless, spawning a shell in a VIM window is something I desperately sought after since the first day I started working with VIM, and searching on Google reveals that I'm not the only person. Someone even hacked together a Python script so you can start a shell in a window, but it's no terminal emulator, so your possibilities with this "shell" are limited. I wanted to have a real, working shell in VIM, so I wouldn't have to switch around with screen, use half-hearty solutions like splitvt etc.
