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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cokebottle</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="coefficient-of-X.html" title="coefficient of X"/><link rel="next" href="cold-boot.html" title="cold boot"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cokebottle</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="coefficient-of-X.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cold-boot.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cokebottle"/><dt xmlns="" id="cokebottle"><b>cokebottle</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kohk´bot·l/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type because
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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
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complained right back about the ‘escape-escape-cokebottle’
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commands at MIT. After the demise of the <a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html"><i class="glossterm">space-cadet
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keyboard</i></a>, <span class="firstterm">cokebottle</span>
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faded away as serious usage, but was often invoked humorously to describe
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an (unspecified) weird or non-intuitive keystroke command. It may be due
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for a second inning, however. The OSF/Motif window manager,
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mwm</span>(1)</span>,
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has a reserved keystroke for switching to the default set of keybindings
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and behavior. This keystroke is (believe it or not)
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‘control-meta-bang’ (see <a href="../B/bang.html"><i class="glossterm">bang</i></a>). Since
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the exclamation point looks a lot like an upside down Coke bottle, Motif
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hackers have begun referring to this keystroke as <span class="firstterm">cokebottle</span>. See also <a href="../Q/quadruple-bucky.html"><i class="glossterm">quadruple
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