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Printable ASCII characters
~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + space
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = { } |
Qq Ww Ee Rr Tt Yy Uu Ii Oo Pp : " [ ] \
Aa Ss Dd Ff Gg Hh Jj Kk Ll ? ; ' Ctrl
Zz Xx Cc Vv Bb Nn Mm , . / < > Alt

In NetHack, the caret symbol (^) serves the following purposes:

The caret is also used as a prefix to denote a control character, e.g. using Ctrl + P to review previous messages - this is a standard UNIX usage also present in the MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows text-mode interfaces.