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

[robjsargent]

Yes, agreed: setting/overriding locate-DOMINATING-stop-dir-regex is the issue 
(cursed auto-completion in the subject line aside)
I have set it in my .emacs using both 
;; I’m at a place where copy-paste doesn’t work so these are unreliable
 (custom-set-variables  ‘(locate-dominating-stop-dir-regex (purecopy 
“\\`/uufs/chpc.utah.edu/home/camp-group1/\\’”))
; using the above a restart of emacs, C-h v says the value of stop-dir-regex is 
as I set it
;; or
(defvar locate-dominating-stop-dir-regex 
“\\`/uufs/chpc.utah.edu/home/camp-group1/\\’”)
; but here in a restart of emacs C-h v does not have stop-dir-regex as my 
custom value (it’s the default value)

and neither of those stops locate-dominating-file from looking for files in 
/uufs/chpc.utah.edu/home/ directly.  From strace I have seen a three second 
delay for each of the 7 various dominating file checks (.svn .git .bzr et al).  
From elp I have stepped through locate-dominating-file and had a success 
returned from the string-match on my regex vs the tested directory name and 
then the next call to locate-dominating-file uses the built in value (from 
files.elc)  not mine (from .emacs) and does not stop the directory search, 
hence it crosses the automount divide and takes 3 seconds. 

I hope I’ve addressed your questions.  I’m desparate to get this resolved.