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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.)