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@@ -2457,7 +2457,7 @@ is substituted.
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.\"NODE " The subshell support"
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.SH " The subshell support"
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The subshell support is a compile time option, that works with the
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-shells: bash, tcsh and zsh.
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+shells: bash, ash (BusyBox and Debian), tcsh, zsh and fish.
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.PP
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When the subshell code is activated the Midnight Commander will
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spawn a concurrent copy of your shell (the one defined in the
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@@ -2469,28 +2469,34 @@ subshell as if you had typed it. This also allows you to change the
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environment variables, use shell functions and define aliases that are
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valid until you quit the Midnight Commander.
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.PP
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-If you are using
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.B bash
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-you can specify startup
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-commands for the subshell in your ~/.local/share/mc/bashrc file and
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-special keyboard maps in the ~/.local/share/mc/inputrc file.
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-.B tcsh
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-users may specify startup commands in the ~/.local/share/mc/tcshrc file.
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+users may specify startup commands in ~/.local/share/mc/bashrc (fallback ~/.bashrc)
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+and special keyboard maps in ~/.local/share/mc/inputrc (fallback ~/.inputrc).
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+.PP
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+.B ash/dash
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+users (BusyBox or Debian) may specify startup commands in ~/.local/share/mc/ashrc (fallback ~/.profile).
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+.PP
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+.B tcsh, zsh, fish
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+users cannot specify mc-specific startup commands at present. They have to rely on
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+shell-specific startup files.
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.PP
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When the subshell code is used, you can suspend applications at any
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time with the sequence C\-o and jump back to the Midnight Commander, if
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you interrupt an application, you will not be able to run other
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external commands until you quit the application you interrupted.
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.PP
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-An extra added feature of using the subshell is that the prompt
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-displayed by the Midnight Commander is the same prompt that you are
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-currently using in your shell.
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+A special subshell feature is that Midnight Commander displays a dynamic prompt
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+like "user@host:current_path> " (with known problems for fish which displays the prompt in
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+full-screen mode (Ctrl-o), but not when the MC panels are visible).
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.PP
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The
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.\"LINK2"
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OPTIONS
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.\"OPTIONS"
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-section has more information on how you can control the subshell code.
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+section has more information on how you can control subshell usage (-U/-u).
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+Furthermore, to set a specific subshell different from your current SHELL variable or
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+login shell defined in /etc/passwd, you may call MC like this:
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+.B SHELL=/bin/myshell mc
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.\"NODE "Chmod"
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.SH "Chmod"
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The Chmod window is used to change the attribute bits in a group of
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Alexander Kriegisch