> and you can split the view

You could do the same with Nautilus. But in their infinite wisdom GNOME developers decided to remove that ability.

I'm partial to pcmanfm-qt, which also supports splits, and has the best "search in current directory" I've seen anywhere. You open a directory, start typing, and it filters out matching files fzf-style.

It doesn't simply select them like some other file managers do, it searches within the name and not just the prefix (again, like some other file managers), you don't have to press anything beforehand. When you get used to it, it's hard to go without it.

https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt

For those preferring lightweight environments, it has far fewer dependencies than dolphin.

Konqueror (the old KDE file manager) lets you do multiple splits, horizontal as well as vertical, and preview files in the file manager.

Very nice, but no longer as well maintained.

> you can't get better than Dolphin

Try <https://krusader.org>. Same KDE underpinnings, but orthodox interface.

I miss TkDesk, which I discovered many years ago when I was first trying Linux, partly because it supports unlimited splits, not just two. In fact, if I'm remembering correctly, when navigating to a subdirectory the default was just to open it in a new split. You ended up with splits containing the full path from wherever you started to your eventual subdirectory (you could scroll the view of splits horizontally once there got to be too many).

https://tkdesk.sourceforge.net/

> It can also directly open ssh and SFTP URLs.

I wish mc could browse remote URLs, and I'm tempted to author an mc clone in Go to address this particular pain-point. Maybe some day handcrafting bespoke rsync/rclone commands will frustrate me enough to motivate me.

Not only that, but if you want to move around a large number of files, Dolphin is the only that get you covered without crashes or slowing down

Oh that's great; thanks! I always used Alt+Enter to do this for the currently highlighted file, but didn't know you can do it for multiple files too.

You might like Yazi[0], although the layout is more "modern" (like ranger / nnn etc.) uses tabs for multiple different views.

[0]: https://yazi-rs.github.io/

Does it work the same as Dolphin where you get a terminal panel to the same window with the Konsole settings of yours, and it changes the directory together with Dolphin navigation?

Super nice especially when adding music to my library with Beets...

it was not always named Midnight Commander, it was Mouseless Commander

it was renamed somewhere around 1995

Right now, is it after midnight, or before midnight, where you live?

You mean something like

    print -rl -- *(om[1].)

Reverse shell command search for eg *.txt allows you to look through the most recent text files you've explicitly referenced