" ... If you really want to hack at it, it's in filelock.c at about line 320 in EMACS 22. Here's the code ... " Possibly, hopefully, a way to get rid of the super-annoying emacs lock file probleme

" ... However you can do this. You must do this BEFORE emacs starts
running. Put this in wherever you keep environment variables.
EMACSLOCKDIR=/tmp ... " Sarcastic rant about the emacs lockfile behaviour. She's right, this should be a user-definable emacs macro, especially as it annoys people to no end when editing over NFS/sshfs/dav