How can you toggle between two windows of an application without cycling?

That doesn't help at all though.

I still can't believe there is no way to 'toggle' between two open files within an application?

Say I am copying and pasting some text between two documents (but I happen to have several open), I want to be able to switch back and forth between these two documents, and not cycle through every one each time.

Ok, unless I'm missing something the behavior you are describing 'sort of' works - I say sort of because for it to work you seem to have first manually select the other file by clicking on it and then you can toggle back and forth using command` and command-shift-`

But what about the typical way I'd be using it, which is what one does when cycling through apps with command-tab... Say you are working on File 4 (of 5) you then cycle through with command-` to File 2. You do some work on File 2. I'd 'expect' a way to just toggle back to File 4 since that was the last one I was working on, yet command-shift-` doesn't seem to work in this case.

Again, maybe I'm missing something. Make five text files and name them file 1, file2, etc. and try it. Hopefully it's just something I'm not doing correctly. In the meantime, I guess I'll use expose to pick my second file I want to toggle between and then use the aforementioned suggestion.

Think how inefficient that is to use exposé for toggling between two files? You wouldn't even be toggling you'd be 'viewing and clicking' That's horribly inefficient imo.

I want a fast way to simply toggle between two files like you can on linux and (uggh) windows.

Right now the best options seem to be:

1) My favorite so far is to move the two files I want to toggle between to a new space and then I can toggle between them since only two are opened on the new space and command-` seems to respect only the windows in the active space.

2) Do what the previous poster mentioned about stacking the files that I need to toggle between so that one is right after the other. (This is a pretty good option as well, but I find it easier to just toggle with once key stroke instead of having to remember which is back and which is forward to toggle - in fact at that point is not really a toggle but simple movement.)

3) Install "witch" which is 'ok', but as far as I can tell you give up the use of command-` and everything becomes a toggle using only command-tab. (I sort of like command-` I just wish it behaved like command-tab within windows of an application.)

Maybe I'm missing how expose works... but remember all I want to do is 'quickly' toggle back and forth between two files. A keystroke to do this (similar to how commmand-tab toggles you between two apps) seems the fastest. Pointing and clicking always seems slower to me.

I'm not using the mouse. I want to 'toggle' between two files using the keyboard. (Think of the concept of toggling between two apps - you would use command-tab to switch over to one app - then press control-tab again and you are back to the other app you were on. You can keep doing this. However, you can't do this within files using command-` The behavior is different.)

I don't want to press F10 and use arrow keys that's not toggling and way too slow. (Again I do have a somewhat adequate solution as provided by moving the two files over to a new space then I can toggle with command-`)

Expose is SLOW for toggling.. .remember I'm TOGGLING - that means going back and forth between two files. In Expose I'd have to keep arrowing over to the file I want... way too slow.

I'm not trying to be rude, seriously I'm not. It just seems like bdmarsha and a couple others are the only one that understood what I was concerned with. And again, I have a solution (as provided by bdmarsha I believe), that seems to be ok for the situation (move the two files I want to toggle between to a separate space then command-` will act as expected.)

I'm not trying to be rude to you either, but either A) I obviously am not explaining the behavior I'm expecting well enough or B) you yourself did not even read the original post, since if you read the post you wouldn't need to mention about using command-` since I'm well aware of what it does. But command-` ONLY cycles and does not toggle.

All I'm saying is it would be nice if command-` behaved like command-tab does in regard to HOW it switches. "Cycling" is not toggling. When you press command-tab once the first application that is brought up is the LAST one you were just using. Command-` does not work this way within the files that are open - it ONLY cycles.

Sounds like you're the one being rude when you say "suck it up." I was very thankful to the people that have helped and I've marked their responses as "helpful." The person who keeps mentioning use Expose and then point and click with the mouse or use arrows was suggesting something, that if they read the post, had nothing to do with what I wanted - which was a fast way to toggle between two open files.

Again, this isn't that big a deal and I'm trying to drop this conversation (unless someone knows of some hacker app that can change it - in which case please let me know.) Would I like the behavior of command-` to be different.. sure.. am I going to give up my Mac... NEVER:) I love this thing. Best OS I've ever used. Is it perfect.. no, but nothing is. (My bigger beef is with a dual monitor display I think the main app tool bar should at least be copied to the other monitor display. I hate having to go over to the other monitor display to get to an application's menu.)

I apologize for any rudeness that came across. It's difficult often in text messages to convey certain things, and I didn't want to seem ungrateful.

Group hug:)?