I love "* Commander"-style file managers/console hybrids, but mc is not the bomb. It doesn't allow you to split screen to see a few lines of console output (it's either full screen panels or nothing), keys suck and they cannot be redefined even if running under X (which should allow you to use any keys, and mc partly supports that for Ctrl+Enter but it can't be customized), the hardlink feature works poorly and does not support replicating subtrees, there are no hotkeys for sort, no 3 columns mode, etc.
Are there better Midnight Commanders for Linux? What I'm looking for is something similar to FAR Manager on Windows, which is the king of * Commanders.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 16:41
Nobody knows? It's kind of strange, since commanders are productive tools for command-line users and people who want to know what they do and what does every file look like. They are very useful for managing source code or large media collections with hundreds of thousands of files, etc. I'm puzzled as to why there's not an amazing commander for Linux, being an intelligent user oriented OS, and the best one (as well as another one or two very good ones) is for Windows, an OS targetted at clickfag lusers.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 19:16
krusader is a kde commander-like file manager. I hated it when I tried it but I hate mc too, so you might love it. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/
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Anonymous2007-02-14 22:49
I can safely say that Opera is the MC of the browsers in terms of browsing philosophy.
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Tried Krusader, but without a console, it's not too different from your unproductive click click click file manager. The good thing about Commander file managers is that you (should) keep the console and the power of it, just don't have to type some commands and most importantly source and target directories, so you can go much faster than with the bare console, without getting in the way for anything else. This is exactly why I don't like mc much, you can't have console output and panels at the same time.
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Anonymous2007-02-15 6:42
Protip: unproductive click click click FM are more productive than 70's abandonware.