From 4f5da3410c5699fd680c7abfd37701dc2832124b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:48:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/dired-x.el (dired-omit-expunge): Escape '%'
 (bug#75877).

(cherry picked from commit bfc8540da4521d460b72fdbc20edb3a0488c23c2)
---
 lisp/dired-x.el | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/dired-x.el b/lisp/dired-x.el
index 364e8af5299..1774049b056 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-x.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-x.el
@@ -498,8 +498,10 @@ status message."
                                nil
                                (if dired-omit-verbose
                                    (format "Omitted %%d line%%s in %s"
-                                           (abbreviate-file-name
-                                            dired-directory))
+                                           (replace-regexp-in-string
+                                            "%" "%%"
+                                            (abbreviate-file-name
+                                             dired-directory)))
                                  "")
                                init-count)))
               (force-mode-line-update))))
-- 
2.39.5