Terminals on MacOS

Here are some helpful tips and tricks you should consider when using the terminal on macOS.

VSCode

Turn on Integrated: Mac Option Is Meta

Controls whether to treat the option key as the meta key in the terminal on macOS.

Terminal (in-built)

Turn on Use option as meta key

iTerm2

Choose Esc+ on Left Option key

iTerm2 allow you separate the remapping for left and right Option keys, which you can certianly leverage.