* lisp/dired.el (dired-build-subdir-alist): Restrict previous change.

(to only file names containing "\"s)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
index 34fb651db10..733e522a9aa 100644
--- a/lisp/dired.el
+++ b/lisp/dired.el
@@ -2558,7 +2558,8 @@ instead of `dired-actual-switches'."
           (setq count (1+ count))
           ;; Undo any escaping of newlines and \ by dired-insert-directory.
           ;; Convert "n" preceded by odd number of \ to newline, and \\ to \.
-          (when (dired-switches-escape-p switches)
+          (when (and (dired-switches-escape-p switches)
+                     (string-match "\\\\" new-dir-name))
             (let (temp res)
               (mapc (lambda (char)
                       (cond ((equal char ?\\)