Re: How to over-ride locate-domination-stop-dir-regex

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 23:07:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: robjsargent@gmail.com
> Injection-Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 06:07:11 +0000
> 
> I need to stop locate-dominating-file from crossing an automount boundary 
> (/uufs/chcp.utah.edu/common/home/) since each dominating-file check (for .hg 
> .git. .svn et al) takes three seconds to fail.

I think you want to customize locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp.

> I have tried assigning it within (custom-set-variables ) in my .emacs but 
> stepping through the function my setting is in place for only the first 
> dominating file check.  The build-in value return on the second dominating 
> file.

I don't understand this part: what do "assigning it" and "my setting"
mean in this context?  What did you try to assign?