(dired-goto-file): Handle \ and ^M quoted by backslash. Fix error message.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
index 11669400ad6..700d1e25634 100644
--- a/lisp/dired.el
+++ b/lisp/dired.el
@@ -1957,7 +1957,7 @@ instead of `dired-actual-switches'."
   (setq file (directory-file-name file)) ; does no harm if no directory
   (let (found case-fold-search dir)
     (setq dir (or (file-name-directory file)
-                  (error "Need absolute pathname for %s" file)))
+                  (error "File name `%s' is not absolute" file)))
     (save-excursion
       ;; The hair here is to get the result of dired-goto-subdir
       ;; without really calling it if we don't have any subdirs.
@@ -1966,11 +1966,17 @@ instead of `dired-actual-switches'."
             (and (cdr dired-subdir-alist)
                  (dired-goto-subdir dir)))
           (let ((base (file-name-nondirectory file))
+                search-string
                 (boundary (dired-subdir-max)))
+            (setq search-string
+                  (replace-regexp-in-string "\^m" "\\^m" base nil t))
+            (setq search-string
+                  (replace-regexp-in-string "\\\\" "\\\\" search-string nil t))
             (while (and (not found)
                         ;; filenames are preceded by SPC, this makes
                         ;; the search faster (e.g. for the filename "-"!).
-                        (search-forward (concat " " base) boundary 'move))
+                        (search-forward (concat " " search-string)
+                                        boundary 'move))
               ;; Match could have BASE just as initial substring or
               ;; or in permission bits or date or
               ;; not be a proper filename at all: