On Tue, Jun 05, 2007, Richard Levitte wrote about "[ctwm] Modifying the 
modifiers for bindings...":
>...
>  "F1" = c|m : icon|frame : f.dofoo 
> modifier combinations in one go.  I'm not entirely happy with that choice 
> of operators for backward compatibility reasons, but I could go with 
> something like this (using , and + instead): 
>...

I wonder when this "|" for modifiers came into use... I've been using twm
derivatives for more than 15 years (and ctwm itself for more than a decade),
so my configuration file is a living fossil ;-) It always looked, and still
looks, like this:

"A"     = c m   : all           : f.autoraise
Button2 =       : icon | title  : f.move

In other words, it appears that there never really was a need for the
inconsistent vertical bar in the modifier list, and a space can be used.
I don't know why it was explained with the bar in the documentation, or why
ctwm accepts the vertical bar there at all. I see that the X11R6 twm
documentation also talks about this vertical bar - but I guess that once
upon a time, it didn't (otherwise, I don't know how I ever decided to write
"c m", with a space).

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