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Re: Keystroke for switching among an app's windows
Submitted by macemx on Tue, 2008-12-09 15:15.
While I sometimes find it useful to alt-tab between windows in Windows, I love the way OS X is smart about cmd-tabbing between apps. For example, if I'm you're and pasting numerous times between two applications, cmd-tab will will toggle you between the two apps you're actually using, rather than having to cmd-tab through a bunch of open apps.
Agreed, it's good stuff – but is Windows different there? I thought that it, too, will toggle between two windows with each press of Cmd + Tab.
It can be handy that the Mac will toggle between two apps in that manner – but that's actually a bit inconvenient when I want to toggle between two windows of the same app. No consistent Mac keystroke for that. : ( In this area, Windows' behavior may be more convenient: you can toggle between any two windows, whether they're from the same app or different apps. In Windows, it may take a lot of initial Cmd + Tab presses to get from that first desired window to the second desired one, but from there, I believe you can toggle between the two with just Cmd + Tab presses. (Correct me if I'm wrong!)
As for the ability to perform consecutive operations like Quit while in a Mac's Cmd + Tab mode, I agree, that's a great feature that many people overlook. I have no idea whether Windows offers the same.
Awesome, a very buitifil parody of the "Think Different" poem.