Subject: Re: The crontab(1) usability
To: None <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/12/2004 17:23:06
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 cube@cubidou.net wrote:

> > 	[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.

For a short term solution, consider switching to an alternative keyboard
layout, such as Dvorak.

                                [R]
 [a] [o] [E] [u] [i] [d] [h] [t] [n]

As you can see, pressing [r] instead of [e] would be quite difficult here.

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