--- lib/mcconfig/paths.c
+++ lib/mcconfig/paths.c
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
     /* data */
     { "skins",                                 &mc_data_str, MC_SKINS_SUBDIR},
     { "fish",                                  &mc_data_str, FISH_PREFIX},
+    { "ashrc",                                 &mc_data_str, "ashrc"},
     { "bashrc",                                &mc_data_str, "bashrc"},
     { "inputrc",                               &mc_data_str, "inputrc"},
     { "extfs.d",                               &mc_data_str, MC_EXTFS_DIR},
--- tests/lib/mcconfig/user_configs_path.c
+++ tests/lib/mcconfig/user_configs_path.c
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@
     },
     { /* 0. */
         CONF_DATA,
+        "ashrc"
+    },
+    { /* 0. */
+        CONF_DATA,
         "bashrc"
     },
     { /* 0. */
--- doc/man/mc.1.in
+++ doc/man/mc.1.in
@@ -2434,7 +2434,7 @@
 .\"NODE "  The subshell support"
 .SH "  The subshell support"
 The subshell support is a compile time option, that works with the
-shells: bash, tcsh and zsh.
+shells: bash, ash (BusyBox and Debian), tcsh, zsh and fish.
 .PP
 When the subshell code is activated the Midnight Commander will
 spawn a concurrent copy of your shell (the one defined in the
@@ -2446,28 +2446,34 @@
 environment variables, use shell functions and define aliases that are
 valid until you quit the Midnight Commander.
 .PP
-If you are using
 .B bash
-you can specify startup
-commands for the subshell in your ~/.local/share/mc/bashrc file and
-special keyboard maps in the ~/.local/share/mc/inputrc file.
-.B tcsh
-users may specify startup commands in the ~/.local/share/mc/tcshrc file.
+users may specify startup commands in ~/.local/share/mc/bashrc (fallback ~/.bashrc)
+and special keyboard maps in ~/.local/share/mc/inputrc (fallback ~/.inputrc).
+.PP
+.B ash/dash
+users (BusyBox or Debian) may specify startup commands in ~/.local/share/mc/ashrc (fallback ~/.profile).
+.PP
+.B tcsh, zsh, fish
+users cannot specify mc-specific startup commands at present. They have to rely on
+shell-specific startup files.
 .PP
 When the subshell code is used, you can suspend applications at any
 time with the sequence C\-o and jump back to the Midnight Commander, if
 you interrupt an application, you will not be able to run other
 external commands until you quit the application you interrupted.
 .PP
-An extra added feature of using the subshell is that the prompt
-displayed by the Midnight Commander is the same prompt that you are
-currently using in your shell.
+A special subshell feature is that Midnight Commander displays a dynamic prompt
+like "user@host:current_path> " (with known problems for fish which displays the prompt in
+full-screen mode (Ctrl-o), but not when the MC panels are visible).
 .PP
 The
 .\"LINK2"
 OPTIONS
 .\"OPTIONS"
-section has more information on how you can control the subshell code.
+section has more information on how you can control subshell usage (-U/-u).
+Furthermore, to set a specific subshell different from your current SHELL variable or
+login shell defined in /etc/passwd, you may call MC like this:
+.B SHELL=/bin/myshell mc
 .\"NODE "Chmod"
 .SH "Chmod"
 The Chmod window is used to change the attribute bits in a group of