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

[Andy Moreton]

On Tue 22 May 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 13:06:10 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
>> Injection-Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 20:06:11 +0000
>> 
>> Since I cannot replace files.elc in /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp (I am not an
>> administrator) I installed the source files.el in ~/.emacs.d/lisp which
>> precedes the default in my load-path. I then edited the value of
>> locate-dominating-stop-dir-regex. Still the value of the variable is that
>> found in files.elc
>> 
>> How on earth am I to override this rather archaic setting?
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't setq work for you?
>
>   (setq locate-dominating-stop-dir-regex WHATEVER)
>
> (Replace "WHATEVER" with the value you need for your use case.)

I think you meant `locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp'.

    AndyM