evil-mode in terminal without Alt/Meta

This morning I found the following post on reddit /r/emacs: Evil mode on a vt100 and I recalled having the same issue with terminal Emacs in xterm. By default, xterm emulates VT102, and behaving like VT100, will not send Alt/Meta key to Emacs without this workaround.In short, the workaround to send M-x in evil-mode even if Alt/Meta doesn't work is to use this combo: \ Esc-x. \ will temporarily…