Is there a keyboard shortcut to cycle between windows in the current space?

Question

When I have two applications open side-by-side in the same space, I'd like to be able to swap between them quickly with the keyboard.

I can use Command+Tab, but often I land on an application in a different space, and it moves me to that space.

Is there a similar shortcut which limits the list of applications to the current space?

(I'm using OSX Snow Leopard.)

Answer 1

Move focus to active or next window (⌃F4). It cycles through visible windows (not applications) on the current space.

I've assigned it to ⌥⇥ myself, and assigned ⌥T to what ⌥⇥ would do normally: d=~/Library/KeyBindings; mkdir -p $d; echo $'{\n\t"~t" = insertTabIgnoringFieldEditor:;\n}' > $d/DefaultKeyBinding.dict.

Answer 2

I don't know of any keyboard shortcuts; but consider the following program.

http://manytricks.com/witch/

Answer 3

If you go to System Preferences, Mission Control and then untick the second box ("When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for that application") that should fix it I think.

Answer 4

For anyone willing to install and use Hammerspoon, this configuration will bind this feature to ⌘`:

~/.hammerspoon/init.lua

local function focus_next()
    -- Filter out windows without titles and non-standard windows
    local valid_windows = hs.fnutils.filter(hs.window.orderedWindows(), function(win)
        return win:title() ~= "" and win:isStandard()
    end)

    -- If there are more than one valid window, focus the next one
    if #valid_windows > 1 then
        local current_win = hs.window.focusedWindow()
        local current_index = hs.fnutils.indexOf(valid_windows, current_win) or 0
        local next_index = (current_index % #valid_windows) + 1
        valid_windows[next_index]:focus()
    end
end

hs.hotkey.bind({ "ctrl" }, "'", focus_next)

Somewhat unexpectedly, it works perfectly together with Stage Manager and in fullscreen Split View.