If your running under Unix or Linux, the script command might help you. It creates a file (by default, named typescript) that contains everything you type and all output from the command.

"Playback" of the file does not have all the nice animation delays I remember from good old ANSI Animation, but it is exceedingly simple to use. Combine it with a history command before you exit the logging, and your probably covered.

Personally, I find most of my needs are covered by having a decidedly large history buffer, with "savehistory" set (I use tcsh. Since I am rigorous about how I setup my home directory and where I 'play' around its not too hard to recreate the same results even when executing a perl -e with a Use Module; included.

Create a location for saving the histories, date them ISO style and you should be good to go with a nice GREP finding you many good hits.