Trade: Mistakes for Knowledge

[Solar]

Scroll click in gedit
Seems to work as a paste shortcut

Mark a piece of text, paste with middle mouse button. Standard feature of most (if not all) X11 applications.

[montrom]

Scroll click in gedit
Seems to work as a paste shortcut

Mark a piece of text, paste with middle mouse button. Standard feature of most (if not all) X11 applications.

Now that's the spirit of this thread. Make a mistake, gain some knowledge. However, I think your (sprints) submission was more editor driven, which in the early days of this topic might have passed, purely as filler, however, I have moved past that sort of advice and I'm now looking for things more involving mistakes you've made while programming an OS. Things like, when I was programming <OS specific code>, I was originally doing it wrong but I found that if I did this or that, it worked, etc. And, of course an explanation of why it worked and why it didn't work would be nice too. Thanks.