[JNRowe]

Well, you don't have to use the two pane mode if you don't want anyway. You can switch to single pane mode, use the second pane for file info, use the second pane as a directory tree in the manner of a "regular" single pane explorer, etc.

To perform your "copy, navigate, paste" task while in mc's single pane mode you could either:

a) tag files, pop open the second pane temporarily, navigate and copy.

b) tag files, swap the panes in the background, navigate and copy.

c) tag files, use the bindings to copy them to the inbuilt command line, navigate and copy. Using the "quick cd" dialog would probably speed this up.

d) any of the above with inverted target and source movement.

e) probably a thousand other more sensible ways than the three or cheat-y six I just thought of ;)