Re: putting a command and its output in a buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 28.03.2006 um 19:45 schrieb Gary Weselle:
> > I would like to put a shell command and its output in a buffer,
>
> What about M-x shell-command? Later you'll have to edit *Shell  Command 
> Output* to contain the command ...
>
> Alternatively you can set verbose mode in your shell so that it  repeats 
> the command.

Brilliant!

(defadvice shell-command (before xtrace activate)
  "When called with a prefix argument, prepend \"set -x\" to COMMAND."
  (when (and (interactive-p) current-prefix-arg)
    (setq command (concat "set -x\n" command))))

Too bad "set -x" is included in shell-command-history.

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Kevin Rodgers