From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to over-ride locate-dominating-stop-dir-regex
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 05:31:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9h8e80i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2fa0f438-8992-479b-8669-a54560893d11@googlegroups.com> (message from Rob Sargent on Mon, 21 May 2018 13:06:10 -0700 (PDT))
> 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.)
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2018-05-19 6:07 How to over-ride locate-domination-stop-dir-regex robjsargent
2018-05-19 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-05-19 20:58 ` robjsargent
2018-05-21 20:06 ` How to over-ride locate-dominating-stop-dir-regex Rob Sargent
2018-05-22 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-05-22 11:54 ` Andy Moreton
2018-05-22 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-05-23 0:49 ` Rob Sargent
2018-05-23 1:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-23 1:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-05-23 1:49 ` Rob Sargent
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2018-05-23 2:02 ` Rob Sargent
2018-05-23 19:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-05-26 4:17 ` Rob Sargent
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2018-05-22 5:13 ` Rob Sargent
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