As far as I know mc doesn't provide real prompt, just similar one. And seventh step might need a correction, any key seems to restore normal mc UI.
A way of doing this in vifm is:
- Typing
:!!anything
(note double exclamation mark to force waiting after running the command, with :!anything
shell is paused only if command fails).
- Using one of Ctrl-X shortcuts (Ctrl-X c adds current file name, see other keys in documentation).
- Repeat previous step inserting parts of file names in different places of the command.
- Hit Enter.
- View command output and hit Enter to dismiss it.
As for the Ctrl-O-like shortcut, it's easy to add, although this particular key is already taken by history movement. There is an old TODO item related to this:
Maybe we should add a command to view screen ?
So it was considered, but there were no actual requests for it to be added and adding something unused isn't the best strategy. Let me know if you need such a shortcut.
Update: :hide command was added in v0.10.1.