From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to over-ride locate-dominating-stop-dir-regex Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 21:43:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <81c293f5-9ff4-468f-892c-6c07d2c26831@googlegroups.com> <2fa0f438-8992-479b-8669-a54560893d11@googlegroups.com> <83o9h8e80i.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527039804 15148 195.159.176.226 (23 May 2018 01:43:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 01:43:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 03:43:20 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLIoB-0003qP-IE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 03:43:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58751 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLIqI-0004T9-FF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 21:45:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57668) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLIow-0003zG-VI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 21:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLIot-00037B-TI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 21:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37539 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLIot-00036W-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 21:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLImj-00026C-6w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 03:41:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:QLsOKBj8h8R7+AHNA24Gqf//VgI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116831 Archived-At: > Using edebug-defun I step through locate-dominating-file and the > string-match test uses my value for stop-dir-regexp, eventually matches it > after peeling off "bin/segmentGT.awk" and exits the defun. Then emacs > immediately re-enter the defun and this time the string-match uses the > built-in value for stop-dir-regexp. At that point, do M-x edebug-backtrace RET This should help us figure out where the variable is overridden. Stefan