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Re:Ask YC: Why is emacs a great editor? by ihartley on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @02:35PM (#313868)
or if you're on a mac you can just use your .emacs file:

(custom-set-variables '(mac-command-modifier (quote control)) '(mac-option-modifier (quote meta)) )

And now your command key is a control and your option key is a meta.

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Re:Ask YC: Why is emacs a great editor? by ragnemalm on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @08:23PM (#314275)
Sounds like the best thing to do for a mac (although it wouldn't fix the problem in tty mode). On other operating systems, it's nice to make the change globally, since all other programs seem to use control pretty regularly too.
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