On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:56:27PM +0200, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> The crontab(1) control utility declares two options:
> 
> 	-e	for editing crontab,
> 	-r	for crontab deinstalling
> 
> This two key are located on the usual 101-key keyboard just at the same
> place:
> 
> 	[q] [w] [E] [R] [t] [y]
> 
> This is very easy to press [r] key instead of [e] (and I've already some
> times doing that :-/). Thus, my proposition is a replace the "-r" key by
> "-R", or "-p" (as for "prune"). This will avoid such usability problems.

Well, go tell the Open Group.  I value the idea, but I don't think such
a change can happen any time soon.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/crontab.html

Quentin Garnier.