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Emacs uses a lot of C-. and similar keyboard sequences.
iTerm doesn't send the key sequence C-. itself, but I've found that I can map C-. into an escape sequence or hex code or text in iTerm's preferences/profile/keys. How can I get iTerm to send C-. as something that Emacs will recognize?
You can view Emacs' key bindings by typing C-h, b. If you then search the help text for C-. you'll find this mapping:
M-[ 2 7 ; 5 ; 4 6 ~ C-.
The ESC [ … ~ sequence is used to send arbitrary key combinations numerically, primarily for combinations that don't map to a specific character. Since Control-Period doesn't map to a character that can be sent to a terminal, map it to the character sequence ESC [ 2 7 ; 5 ; 4 6 ~ (without the spaces).
The second parameter in the escape sequence is a number representing the modifier keys and the third parameter is the base character. The modifier-key values are described at the end of the PC-Style Function Keys section of the XTerm Control Sequences documentation.
