Midnight Commander

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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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.