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/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
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/
Motifswitching 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".
(1995-01-04)