eshell - editing files

[Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>]

This may sound like a weird question. Is there any way to configure
eshell so that when I want to edit a file, e.g. by typing "emacs foo", I
instead get a new buffer with the file in? It kind of popped up because
if you do something with svn that requires editing something, I got
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| $ svn pe svn:ignore .
| emacs: Terminal type "dumb" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.
| It lacks the ability to position the cursor.
| If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,
| use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell:
| `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type.  It may be necessary
| to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well.
| svn: system('emacs svn-prop.tmp') returned 256
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