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cokebottle: /kohk´bot·l/, n. Any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type because
it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the
‘control-meta-cokebottle’ commands at SAIL, and SAIL people
complained right back about the ‘escape-escape-cokebottle’
commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet
keyboard, cokebottle
faded away as serious usage, but was often invoked humorously to describe
an (unspecified) weird or non-intuitive keystroke command. It may be due
for a second inning, however. The OSF/Motif window manager,
mwm(1),
has a reserved keystroke for switching to the default set of keybindings
and behavior. This keystroke is (believe it or not)
‘control-meta-bang’ (see bang). Since
the exclamation point looks a lot like an upside down Coke bottle, Motif
hackers have begun referring to this keystroke as cokebottle. See also quadruple
bucky.
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