Open an Emacs buffer when a command tries to open an editor in shell-mode

Question

I like to use Emacs\' shell mode, but it has a few deficiencies. One of those is that it\'s not smart enough to open a new buffer when a shell command tries to invoke an editor.

Answer 1

There's emacsclient, gnuserv, and in Emacs 23, multi-tty that are all useful for this. Actually I think in Emacs 23, emacsclient has all of the interesting functionality of gnuserv.