quadruple bucky
:quadruple bucky: n. obs. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard
use of all
four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing
a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode
use of
four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift
keys are the control and meta keys on _both_ sides of the keyboard. This
was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the
left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control
and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your
nose.
Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice,
because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some
character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program
has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like:
"Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See {double bucky}
}, bucky bits
, cokebottle
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