Yes, it does not take long. As I mentioned above, in my case, I just paste
the URL into a terminal after the characters tt
While it sounds like it would take long because of the number of steps, I'd
be shocked if it ever takes more than 2 seconds; More often than not closer
to 1 second:
1.) double-click in URL bar which highlights the URL
2.) scroll mouse over workspace switcher to switch to a workspace that
already contains only a maximized terminal. This way focus is always given to
the terminal.
3.) type tt
4.) press the middle mouse button
5.) hit
It takes longer to write that, and longer to read that, than it takes to
execute it. Maximum of two seconds.
Alternatively, if you don't want to leave a terminal open, or you don't use
workspaces, or you just like using the keyboard you can:
1.) ALT-d (or CTRL-l) to select URL
2.) CTRL-c to copy URL
3.) CTRL-alt-t to run terminal (or whatever shortcut you use to run a
terminal or run a command)
4.) tt
5.) CTRL-SHIFT-v to paste URL
6.)
Depending on how fast you type that can be slower or even faster than the
mouse method. With a little practice it probably would not take most people
more than 2 seconds to do that.
More often than not I just use the video everywhere plugin. Since I've
posted to this thread, however, I've had several occasions where the video
everywhere plugin didn't work but the above method did.
Sometimes simplest is best. When you take all the hours it is taking to
write this script, and divide it up, it will take a while to 'pay that back'
to where the extra time saved is really a benefit. For example, if hack has
spent four hours on this already then that equals 4 * 3600 = 14,400 seconds.
Even if he shaves a second off the above method, it will take him 14,400
downloads just to break even! Obviously, if you are a very experienced bash
script writer it would probably only take a few minutes to write this script
and could therefore be useful.
For educational purposes, however, this exercise can certainly be useful; I
know hack is learning a lot from this. From an efficiency standpoint,
however, it makes sense to work on scripts that are directly worth the time
invested. Then, as you become more experienced, a job like this one will go
much faster and be worth it as well. This is an especially good practice for
learning bash scripts which are often all about saving time anyway.
