title: Making iTerm to translate 'meta-key' in the same way as in other OSes
body: <p>In bash shell with emacs key-binding, you can use key combination like M-f, M-b to move one word forward or backward on the shell prompt respectively. Usually, the meta key is mapped to Alt key on Windows and Linux. However, in iTerm, I could not find a way to map this meta key to either Option or Command key on my MacBook Pro.</p>
  
  <p>It seems that in OS X, the meta key is by default mapped to ESC key. So you can use ESC-f, ESC-b on iTerm. However, ESC key is apparently not practical to use. In addition, iTerm does have option that allow you to modifier mapping for the meta key (Bookmarks > Profiles > Keyboard Profiles > Global > Option Key as...), this setting does not seem to work at all.</p>
  
  <p>Therefore, if anyone know what is the solution to this problem, please let me know. </p>
  
  <p>I have upgraded to the latest release, 0.9.6.1012, and this behavior is still persist.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Some clarification to my question. The key-binding I'm talking about is for bash shell, not in emacs. It just happens that, by default, bash shell also use the same key-binding as emacs.</p>