command-tab & del key.

1) Cmd-Tab switches between open, non-hidden applications, not windows there of. You need to look into Exposé a bit (Check your System prefs for your keys for Exposé). The 2nd option will tile all windows of the current app.

2) Nope. This isn't really the "Mac way". Just one of the little things that switchers have troubles with.

 

Re: deleting characters that precede text, doesn't the delete key that 's in the location where a pc's backspace key do that? Does for me on my Apple keyboard.

 

Go to the Finder, select Mac Help from the Help pull-down menu, search for Expose and select the "Seeing all your windows at once" entry.

option-e and then e again gives you é.

Perhaps I didn't understand you correctly and Timmac has.. clearly you have a laptop of some sort. The delete key on the keyboard = backspace on Windows. fn-delete = del on Windows.. but only in some applications. Most Mac apps (AFAIK) don't honor the "del" key as it's used on Windows. If that's what you meant.

 

With regards to the first part of your question, you can use cmd-tab to switch between applications, and cmd-` to switch between open windows of the active application.

With regards to the second part, if you're using a laptop, in order to delete characters in front of the cursor, hold down the fn key and hit delete, otherwise, on a standard keyboard, you can just hit the del key right underneath the help key.

I'm not sure if I've answered either of your questions, as I'm not sure I follow them exactly, but I thought I'd try.

 

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For what it's worth, I tried forward delete (fn-del on Apple notebooks) and it works in Cocoa apps (i.e. pretty much everything Apple gave you -- Mail, Safari, etc) and also in MS Office 2004. So it should be readily available. Unless you mean something else?

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Hit fn-del where the ^ is and the "s" after the ^ (as opposed to the "e" before it) is deleted.

 

See? That's what I get for only testing in a Carbon app. **** You Lotus Notes! What was I thinking?

 

looks like you've got the delete issue worked out, but now let me see if I can help some for the tabbing issue.


As has been stated above, when you cmd+tab, you tab through applications (not individual windows). When you're in an application, say, Firefox, you can tab through the different windows by pressing cmd+` (the little key beside the "1" key).

Now, that can get annoying, because you have to first tab to the application and then "tilde" through the windows. However, there is a preference pane called Witch ( http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=witch )
Install that, and then go to its pref pane and enable it. By default, you press cmd+[right arrow key] to use it. It will allow you to cycle through all open windows, whether they are minimized or not. If you choose a minimized window, it will pull it up out of the dock, unless cmd+tab. It's a really handy little tool. Now, personally, I have the keyboard shortcut set to cmd+opt+tab. This way I can cmd+tab as normal, but if I do happen to need a specific window, I can just add the option key to the mix and get to it easily.

Hope this helps

 

hey people...

I'm using a MacBook with a danish keyboard and there is no "`"-key next to the "1"-key so I was hoping some one here knows where I might find that key...

 

I believe this is the correct Danish keyboard?



If so, it should be the key just above your right "shift" key that has a "~" (tilde) on it. However, due to the awkward positioning of it in relation to this shortcut combination, you might want to remap it to something more easily usable.

 

the Western zoo: On the danish keyboard, use apple+< to switch between windows in an app. Also, see the keyboard system preferences for other system wide keyboard shortcuts.

 

super!! thanks a million!! Exposé is great(!) but sometimes a bit slow compared to pressing two keys...