Creating A "Help" Program For DTOS Using Dmenu

I decided to create a simple bash script to create a "help" program for DTOS. This script will list (in dmenu) some of my tutorial videos on topics such as XMonad, Doom Emacs, etc. Creating such a script should take just a few minutes, so I thought I'd do it on camera.
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[@user-ux2kk5vp7m]

Another way to add quotes to the end of all the lines is to select them and do the command s/$/"/ It replaces the end of each line with a quote. You can do the same with ^ to prepend text to lines

[@DistroTube]

Yea a substitution works. I could have also used command mode like I did inserting the text at the beginning of the line. But I had already shown both of those, so I thought I'd show how a macro works. ;)

[@haidermirza192]

Thank you for making videos on scripting. Has become VERY useful lately.

[@vlatkosurlan545]

Should've been 'Shift+v G' to select visually everything to the end of the buffer. Thanks for your work! Love it!

[@Miguel_GM]

Great video. I like this step-by-step scripting videos. They are very educational. Thanks!

[@sharqueeshajohnalaneesha2019]

2:47 No, it was a beginner’s mistake

[@ewancox4895]

In vim, there is a quicker way to add something to multiple lines using "Visual block" mode; 1) Use Ctrl+V to enter mode 2) Then simply down arrow (or J key) to highlight the beginning of all of the desired lines you wish to prefix 3) Then use Shift+I to enter insert mode at the beginning of the top line to start typing 4) Then press Esc key to re-enter normal mode and in doing so, Vim will prepend each of the previously selected lines with the text you entered on the first line. You can also use this method to quickly add text to the end of each line without the need for a macro. Simply follow as above, with a few differences; 1) Go to end of the first line to add text to 2) Use Ctrl+V for Visual block mode and select the desired lines 3) Use Shift+A for append text mode 4) Enter the text to append to each of the lines selected in Step 2 5) Press Esc to exit back to normal mode, writing the text to all of the lines in the process.

[@Chinmoku_No_Te]

Much appreciated brah, I'm totally loving DTOS!!! I got it on my main production desktop and laptop!!!

[@DistroTube]

^^ This guys lives dangerously! :D

[@haidermirza192]

I did it the very first minute you posted the initial video on my main machine.

[@zhenya2055]

Testing in PROD is the best kind of testing. Finds all the bugs extremely quickly. And fixes get implemented at an expedited pace. :D

[@BlindRambler]

I'm not going to install yet, but I might actually put it on my current machine when I get a new machine just after January.

[@jonnypeace2810]

Always learn something from fellow script writers, great stuff :)

[@swayamshree5951]

It is surprising that this video showed up on my timeline as I am working on my own post installation script for ubuntu using spectrWM

[@wer3eng760]

Not sure if doing 2 normal commands but then resulting to doing a macro just for the closing ending quote is really the way to do that instead of just sticking with normal commands or doing only one macro in the first place. But all right.

[@0x007A]

DT may have been demonstrating two ways to modify multiple lines of text without worrying about optimisations. The closing quote mark could, as you said, been done the same way as the other two edits.

[@stephenreaves3205]

Have you gone over how you make the strikethroughs in your vims replacement? Or is that an evil mode feature?

[@DistroTube]

The default behavior in Doom Emacs.

[@deansundquist9601]

This man would have been a wonderful radio host if it was 1935. Give er a bad shebang

[@SlideRSB]

13:50 Why are you using printf inside of command substitution to get the video url? Can't you just take the array value and assign it to your url variable? url=${dtvids[$title]}

[@DistroTube]

Of course, I could do that! Keep in mind that this was a "I'm doing this on the fly" kinda video. ;) That being said, I have removed the unnecessary printf in the script now.

[@SlideRSB]

@@DistroTube Fair enough. Always interested to see your thought process during a live coding session. As for myself, I don't normally think to resort to command substation until other solutions fail to execute the desired objective.

[@henrikmunch8609]

6:33 How are you able to highlight not only all the instances of the search, but also the how the text would look after the replacement? PS: great vid!

[@ganeshhkuramsetti]

may be we can use mpv .. if someone intrested only in the video content but not on the comments or show notes. We can add that choice 😊

[@voiceofthetrue1849]

Hey DT! You should pip it to mpv instead.

[@DistroTube]

Mpv is going to have a lot of latency and new users are going to wonder if they even selected something when mpv takes forever to load. Of course, anyone could edit the script and change "qutebrowser" to "mpv". But the browser is definitely the better default in this case.

[@SlideRSB]

Instead of editing all of that table data to shoehorn it into an associative array, I think a better approach would have been to wrap it into a Heredoc and then read the entire table into a shell variable. Then you could pipe it into cut or awk to present the list of titles with dmenu. Once a choice has been made, grep the selection against the variable containing the Heredoc to get the line and then use cut or awk again to get the URL. That will also get rid of all your bashisms and make things more POSIX.

[@stevie1da_]

Its funny, ChrisTitusTech just finished his arch install script. Now you can combine forces and make a proper arch based distro

[@fallsdp]

They are approaching things from somewhat different perspectives. But…yes….these two have very interesting projects.

[@N0zer0]

No, it's not funny. CTT stopped using Linux, switched back to Windows and promotes that. Just ignore that guy.

[@vgg175]

i have an idea for this script! I think pæaying the video in mpv over qutebrowser would be best (less load time and mpv is better for playing videos)

[@mohammedhaman6517]

Yup.

[@edbeckerich3737]

Get rid of YT adds too

[@Ironpants57]

If only the cache wasn't so slow in mpv :/

[@svenkarlsen2702]

Aren't array keys limited by length/charset?

[@ocsanik502]

Always end if statements with a hanging ifelse just to scare it into working.

[@robertoaks8260]

First DT ❤️

[@DistroTube]

🎉 Congrats!

[@michaelplaczek9385]

Hey DT, why do you Emacs instead of Vim?

[@ShitTot]

Might be answered in his video here... [Vim vs Emacs. Which is Better?] kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJKllZ-ZjsaNgrM

[@aratof18]

Not first

[@DistroTube]

Confirmed!

[@amiraloi1694]

Hey DT can you test Qubes OS on a video? I checked tour channel for such a video but I didn't find anything yet.

[@thefossenjoyer3346]

Nah, I'm not first.

[@simondj8572]

waht about sway wm ?

[@mrchristoph5674]

Hope be doesn't get de monitized for "assarray"

[@ghareluvlogger3234]

please try a steno keyboard

[@leviticus8930]

Dmenu. No Bloat. Merica

[@christianhofmann7223]

sorry @DT, I can not really follow you - why putting Data and Programm into one File ? - You can read that from Stream (ls or preprocessed file) - so here you have to preprocess the Data every time it changes manually ??? - have I missed something ?

[@edbeckerich3737]

Pipe it ytfzf

[@11WicToR11]

and you did that all manually? xD have you heard of youtube-dl ? *youtube-dl -e "video url or channel url"* => gets title *youtube-dl --get-id "video url or channel url"* => gets video id you paste at the end of youtube url its funny that your "linux tingle" didnt go off after you copy and pasted things 50+ times. That baffles me *EDIT:* at the last line of his script add: *mpv $url* when you have youtube-dl and mpv they work together to avoid using entire browser to play ads then video but instead play it in neat separate video player !

[@thenextpoetician6328]

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