Things I wish mc had:
- Extensibility (e.g. Far Manager has macros, plugins, and scripting; mc has none)
- Better file system navigation (pressing Ctrl+S every time to start isearch when entering a directory is cumbersome)
- Better history (no search; the history file is clobbered on exit, overwriting other instances' history)
- Generally better ergonomics that don't rely so much on the hard-to-reach F-keys
- Things like built-in image viewer that are present in modern file managers are absent in mc
- Development velocity seems to be rather low; not sure why, perhaps because it adopted GitHub only relatively recently.
mc features that I wish other file managers had:
- Stable (no crashes)
- Packaged in all major distributions, so can be installed and used anywhere
- Fairly good performance (asynchronous listdir/stat would make this even better)
- VFS for archives and remote hosts (FUSE/sshfs can be flaky)
- File management features which are standard for Norton clones (but not for many new file managers like ranger), such as searching in files (and operating on the results)
- Runs in a terminal, so can be used via SSH