Are there any keyboard shortcuts to switch between tabs in terminal?
3 Answers
Default shortcuts
These are the shortcuts listed under the Terminal -> Window
menu. On older MacOS versions they were called Select Next Tab and Select Previous Tab.
Show Next Tab: ⌘+} (selects the tab to the right of your current tab)
Show Previous Tab: ⌘+{ (selects the tab to the left of your current tab)
I think it would make more sense to say ⌘+⇧+] / [, since that's actually what you type.
How to set custom Terminal shortcuts?
Since there are menu items that these shortcuts trigger, you can use System Preferences-> Keyboard-> Keyboard Shortcuts-> App Shortcuts
to reassign the shortcuts to whatever you want.
Click +
to add a shortcut:
Application
field - selectOther...
(at the bottom) and navigate toApplications -> Utilities -> Terminal.app
.Menu Title
field - type the name of your shortcut, e.g. Show Next Tab (you can find the exact shortcut name in theTerminal -> Window
menu, where the default shortcuts are listed)Keyboard Shortcut
field - press your custom shortcut keys.
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1On a German keyboard the combos are: CMD+Ä and CMD+Ö (yes, with the 'Umlaute') :)– gentmattJan 20, 2012 at 19:26
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I'm curious, are those located just above and to the left of the right shift key? Jan 20, 2012 at 19:27
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Defaults seem so foreign (but I'm not a heavy mac user...), Chrome and my text editor use Meta + Alt + Arrows to flip through tabs, but Terminal.app is a special snowflake I guess.– Nick TJun 30, 2013 at 6:29
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⌘ + ⇧ + arrow keys is also a valid option.
Enjoy!
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1Works great for me on Yosemite. This is a far better answer for people with non-english keyboards where the braces are hard to type. Dec 21, 2014 at 19:16
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Works for me on Yosemite as well. You can use Command + arrows to switch terminal windows and add shift to switch tabs inside the window. Jan 9, 2015 at 9:33
If you want to choose your own shortcut for switching tabs in terminal:
open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefPane/
Application Shortcuts > (Add) > Application (Other...) > Applications/Utilities/Terminal
Menu titles:
Select Next Tab
Select Previous Tab
I've chosen, for example, ⌘+ALT+⇦ and ⌘+ALT+⇨.
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Is
Select Next Tab
a reserved command on Mac? I mean, I don't get how the OS will understand this. Apr 8, 2016 at 14:45 -
1Yea, this is what I would like to set my Terminal shortcut to be too since every other application with tabs uses this. But it doesn't work when I add it in shortcuts.... How does mac know what command to do? May 18, 2016 at 12:22
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If a new OS X version has changed the
Terminal
app menu item titles, then change it accordingly. May 18, 2016 at 12:59