<
character, humour> /kohk'bot-l/ Any 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" was used less, but was often used to
describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes.
The
OSF/
Motif window manager, "
mwm" keystroke for
switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is
control-meta-
bang. Since
exclamation mark might be
thought to look like a Coke bottle,
Motif hackers referred
to this keystroke as "
cokebottle".
See also
quadruple bucky.
[
Jargon File]
(1995-01-04)