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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quadruple bucky</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quad.html" title="quad"/><link rel="next" href="quantifiers.html" title="quantifiers"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quadruple bucky</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quad.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quantifiers.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quadruple-bucky"/><dt xmlns="" id="quadruple-bucky"><b>quadruple bucky</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n. obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. On an MIT <a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html"><i class="glossterm">space-cadet keyboard</i></a>, use of all
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four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a
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character key. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in <a href="../R/raw-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">raw mode</i></a>,
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use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift
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keys are the control and meta keys on <span class="emphasis"><em>both</em></span> sides of
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the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was
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to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the
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right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key
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with your nose.</p></dd><dd><p>Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice,
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because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some
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character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has
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ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like:
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“<span class="quote">Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle.</span>” See
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<a href="../D/double-bucky.html"><i class="glossterm">double bucky</i></a>, <a href="../B/bucky-bits.html"><i class="glossterm">bucky bits</i></a>,
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<a href="../C/cokebottle.html"><i class="glossterm">cokebottle</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quad.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quantifiers.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quad </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quantifiers</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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