Thank you, Pierpaolo. I have done this setting. But Esc is still the only
choice for some key bindings, like `remove-sexp’.

The document [1] says that:

    On Windows and Mac OS X, Meta is only available through the Escape key.

I don’t know why.

[1]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/Keyboard_Shortcuts.html



On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopie...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Ben Duan <yfe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a question here. `esc' is used as the Meta key for key bindings in
> > Windows, for example key `esc;c:k' for `M-C-k'. Why not use `Alt' key
> > instead? Is it because Windows captured these keys?
>
> In the default configuration, the Alt key is used to access menus.
>
> If you in Edit -> Preferences -> Editing  uncheck 'Enable keybindings
> in menus', you will get a more emacs-like behavior (which you can then
> further customize).
>
> HTH
>
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