More than one emacs terminal

I personally use a screen-like package I wrote, and there's another version available on the wiki here: elscreen. It provides convenient key bindings to jump to/between the different shells.

I modified the accepted answer by Harpo so that it starts a new shell without prompting, shells will be named in the form *shell-1*,*shell-2*,*shell-3* etc.:

(setq bash-counter 1)
(defun bash ()
  "Start a bash shell"
  (interactive)
  (setq bash-counter (+ bash-counter 1))
  (let
    ((explicit-shell-file-name "/bin/bash"))
    (shell (concat "*shell-" (number-to-string bash-counter) "*"))
    ))