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 right back about the `escape-escape-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(1), has a reserved keystroke for switching to the
default set of keybindings and behavior. 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}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {double bucky}{quadruple bucky}{space-cadet keyboard}]