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  • Welcome to Emacs.SE! Please have a look at this search for "emacs shell" for links to the manual and tutorials on using a shell within Emacs. Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 12:30
  • Press the escape key, then press the letter x, then type the word shell, then press the return key. Try that out and see if you like it. Then, instead of typing the word shell, you can type the word eshell in the above example. Then instead of typing the words shell or eshell, you can type the word term in the above example. None are as good as Terminal.app, but you can do most things inside of Emacs once you learn a few tricks like configuring the $PATH variable to your liking. Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 13:40