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cokebottle
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/kohkbotl/ , n. Any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type
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because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the
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control-meta-cokebottle commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained right
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back about the escape-escape-cokebottle commands at MIT. After the demise of
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the space-cadet keyboard , cokebottle faded away as serious usage, but was
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often invoked humorously to describe an (unspecified) weird or non-intuitive
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keystroke command. It may be due for a second inning, however. The OSF/Motif
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window manager, mwm (1) , has a reserved keystroke for switching to the
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default set of keybindings and behavior. This keystroke is (believe it or
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not) control-meta-bang (see bang ). Since the exclamation point looks a lot
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like an upside down Coke bottle, Motif hackers have begun referring to this
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keystroke as cokebottle. See also quadruple bucky.
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