Re: dired: "!" How to see not just result, but !-cmd too?

[Kevin Rodgers]

David Combs wrote:
> Problem: the dired "!"-cmd leaves only it's *output* in *Shell Command
> Output*; sure be nice if it also left the *command* (and args) that
> got *executed*.
>
> So that if you come back to that buffer later on, there's
> no question as to what !-cmd you did "way back then"
> to *create* the buffer!

You can access previous shell commands at the `!' prompt via `M-p'.

If you want to keep each Dired buffer's commands separate from other
shell commands, try this:

(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook
          (lambda () (make-local-variable 'shell-command-history)))

--
Kevin Rodgers