On: Emacs as a tiling window manager

[graywh]

Not really. Vim can't run a command inside a window like Emacs.

[amix → graywh]

His hack isn't about running commands inside Emacs, but Emacs in fullscreen mode and Emacs window management - and... Vim can do pretty much the same as what he shows in that blog post and in his screenshots.

[graywh → amix]

His screenshot shows at least one window running a shell.

[tedunangst → graywh]

http://www.wana.at/vimshell/