A terminal emulator for ex-Windows users

Question

There are several things I would like to be better in Ubuntu Terminal Emulator.

• coloring, like in the source code

• Copy and paste keyboard shortcuts that I used all the time in Windows: Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V

(Most of people here in Ubuntu use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste everywhere except the terminal! I think it's annoying for newcomers, and I don't worry about historical reasons)

• A feature to save all the output to log file

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UPDATE:

Can the terminal be a powerful feature-full user-friendly tool like a modern IDE? The Linux user can spend 30% of time in the terminal. Programmers no longer code in a notepad. Can I see the history pane? Suggestions? Directory pane? Commands list? Search for words in an output? Contextual behavior? "Search in Google" for a mouse right-click. Tips and tricks learning?

Time is money! Please, people, give me a link to the 21st - century terminal.

Answer 1

The second task can be done running following commands in terminal:

gconftool-2 -t str -s /apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings/copy "<Control>c"
gconftool-2 -t str -s /apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings/paste "<Control>v"

Answer 2

actually, the Gnome-terminal do the coloring part. For the example, use the change directory command, cd and navigate into a folder, sometimes you see things colorful. The color differentiate things into folders, files with different permissions, archives and so on.

and for the second task, the cut and paste key required additional keyboard button to be pressed, that is the shift button. If you are already know about the shift button, ignore this :D (actually, it is pretty hard for me too to press the shift button, already accustomed with ctrl + c button since little kid... haha

Answer 3

Try CLI Companion:

What you are looking for is CLI Companion. It has just about all the features you are looking for, and then some :). Code colouring comes with your terminal's profile and some other terminal settings, so you should configure that in your GNOME Terminal preferences, and possibly install BashstyleNG as well.

To install CLI Companion:

Add the ppa:

ppa:clicompanion-devs/clicompanion-nightlies

And then update your sources:

sudo apt-get update

Then install clicompanion:

sudo apt-get install clicompanion

I will add screenshots and a bit more info later, as I am not on my main laptop where I have it installed.