Switched to Mac

My switch to the Mac meant that I was making more typing mistakes and on one them I was always getting to Emacs to freeze. I looked like this:

I switched to the Mac last summer. I was given one for work. I would never buy one because they put corporate malware on your machine. However, it is convenient to have one because I can test my tutorials on this machine.

Mac does not support a package manager to manage free software which people install on the Mac. So there is a community based one called homebrew through which I installed Emacs. I started switching between my Linux laptop and my Mac. Almost immediately, I ran across a bug. When I typed Command-p on the Mac instead of M-p, a popup appeared and asked if I wanted to print. This happened often because of the different layouts of the two keyboards.

I could not dismiss the popup. The only way to continue working was to force-quit Emacs and lose my unsaved work.

I finally found the right answer here. Unfortunately, I don't have the points on SuperUser to vote it up. The solution is:

(defadvice yes-or-no-p (around prevent-dialog activate)
  "Prevent yes-or-no-p from activating a dialog"
  (let ((use-dialog-box nil))
    ad-do-it))
(defadvice y-or-n-p (around prevent-dialog-yorn activate)
  "Prevent y-or-n-p from activating a dialog"
  (let ((use-dialog-box nil))
    ad-do-it))

The two functions are almost the same. One takes care of ``yes or no'' and the other ``y or n''.