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anyone aware of a quick switcher like this but for open windows/tabs on Mac? AltTab which seems to be the popular options doesn't seem to have a quick switch/fu

anyone aware of a quick switcher like this but for open windows/tabs on Mac? AltTab which seems to be the popular options doesn't seem to have a quick switch/fuzzy finder.

giraffe_lady 4y ago
I do this with hammerspoon, it's built in to the hints module with the "vimperator" style setting. https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.hints.html#windowHints https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.hints.html#windowHints
- tincanner 4y ago
  kicked the tires with Hammerspoon, seems quite powerful, thanks for sharing! the windowHints are quite slow to load but it's a start! what i do at the moment, which is fairly fast, is launch Finder and type the first couple letters of the window i want to switch to—99% hit rate.
  - philsnow 4y ago
    By Finder do you mean Spotlight? My gripe with Spotlight is the instability of the pre-selected item after you type a few characters. On my mac, if I'm trying to go to Finder, I get cmd+space (Spotlight Search) f F(inder.app) i Fi(nd My.app) n Fin(d My.app) d Find( My.app) e Finde(r.app) so quite often I'll see Finder.app show up as the result, but I've already told my fingers to type the 'ind', so there's a race between "type these keys", "see Finder", "type return", and "see Find My".
- philsnow 4y ago
  I didn't like the default cmd-tab behavior or expose so I also used hammerspoon to "fix" it: https://gist.github.com/philsnow/d6ba054f57e2d304f0d4d18f247cf344 https://gist.github.com/philsnow/d6ba054f57e2d304f0d4d18f247... This is off-topic because this thing is about cmd-tab switching instead of typing a couple keys to switch to a particular window, but I just wanted to second the mention for hammerspoon as a "can probably solve your issues with macOS interface" multitool. Since you write in lua (or anything that compiles to lua, like fennel) it's incredibly easy to iterate on.
gregwebs 4y ago
finda for Mac. can also switch to specific tabs in browsers and VSCode. https://keminglabs.com/finda/setup/ https://keminglabs.com/finda/setup/
js2 4y ago
https://manytricks.com/witch/ https://manytricks.com/witch/
westh 4y ago
https://contexts.co/ https://contexts.co/

anyone aware of a quick switcher like this but for open windows/tabs on Mac? AltTab which seems to be the popular options doesn't seem to have a quick switch/fuzzy finder.

giraffe_lady 4y ago

I do this with hammerspoon, it's built in to the hints module with the "vimperator" style setting. https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.hints.html#windowHints https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.hints.html#windowHints

tincanner 4y ago
kicked the tires with Hammerspoon, seems quite powerful, thanks for sharing! the windowHints are quite slow to load but it's a start! what i do at the moment, which is fairly fast, is launch Finder and type the first couple letters of the window i want to switch to—99% hit rate.
- philsnow 4y ago
  By Finder do you mean Spotlight? My gripe with Spotlight is the instability of the pre-selected item after you type a few characters. On my mac, if I'm trying to go to Finder, I get cmd+space (Spotlight Search) f F(inder.app) i Fi(nd My.app) n Fin(d My.app) d Find( My.app) e Finde(r.app) so quite often I'll see Finder.app show up as the result, but I've already told my fingers to type the 'ind', so there's a race between "type these keys", "see Finder", "type return", and "see Find My".
philsnow 4y ago
I didn't like the default cmd-tab behavior or expose so I also used hammerspoon to "fix" it: https://gist.github.com/philsnow/d6ba054f57e2d304f0d4d18f247cf344 https://gist.github.com/philsnow/d6ba054f57e2d304f0d4d18f247... This is off-topic because this thing is about cmd-tab switching instead of typing a couple keys to switch to a particular window, but I just wanted to second the mention for hammerspoon as a "can probably solve your issues with macOS interface" multitool. Since you write in lua (or anything that compiles to lua, like fennel) it's incredibly easy to iterate on.

gregwebs 4y ago

finda for Mac. can also switch to specific tabs in browsers and VSCode. https://keminglabs.com/finda/setup/ https://keminglabs.com/finda/setup/

js2 4y ago

https://manytricks.com/witch/ https://manytricks.com/witch/

westh 4y ago

https://contexts.co/ https://contexts.co/