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I’ve just started to put in the time to get to learn emacs. By default my meta key is bound to Esc, and I’m finding that really inconvenient. I read somewhere however that it’s not a good idea to change the binding to Alt. Is that true? If not, how could I go about doing that?
It’s bound to Alt by default for me, and I have no problems with that. Are you on a Mac perhaps? There it is bound to one of the other keys like option.
If you are on a mac, the way to change the key will probably vary based on which version of Emacs you’re using–e.g., I think changing it in the terminal would be different than changing it on one of the windowed varieties.
Another thing to try: http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/
Look through the keyboard layout with this and see if any key is assigned to
Meta. If not, try assigning it; otherwise try changing it. I haven’t actually tried this, but it looks promising.