cokebottle
/kohk'bot-l/ 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 about the
"altmode-altmode-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", has a reserved keystroke for switching to the default set of
keybindings and behaviour. 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.
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-04)
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