Why does emacs create temporary symbolic links for modified files?

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Update: Emacs 24.3 has been released with full support for this new setting!

In the current trunk of emacs, you can simply customize the variable create-lockfiles:

C-h v create-lockfiles

Documentation:
Non-nil means use lockfiles to avoid editing collisions.

In your init file, you can set

(setq create-lockfiles nil)

Get it via

bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk emacs-trunk
make
src/emacs

(I found out about this, because I decided to get active and just add an option like that myself… 🙂 )

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