Adding a by-name window-switcher really makes Aerospace shine even more

[ELLIOTTCABLE]

This isn't really Aerospace-specific, but I feel like it's meshed super-well with my Aerospace usage, and others might benefit from it.

In vi/VScode and related environments, I'm used to being able to either navigate to a window "spatially" ('move left one pane', okay, now 'move left another pane') or directly, by name. (See ctrlp.vim or VScode's Quick Open.) This is traditionally bound to ⌃P or ⌘P:

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Well, today, I've configured Raycast to listen for ⌥P (as I've pretty much completely dedicated the ⌥ key to Aerospace navigation at this point):

… and now I get an awesome window-switcher whenever I hit that key-combo:

I'm sure there's other tools than Raycast that can do the same thing; Alfred, Contexts, and Witch spring to mind?

It's a great addition to Aerospace, so I don't have to necessarily remember which workspace I 'left that terminal on' if I get distracted by a side-task for too long.

[nikitabobko]

There are a bunch of apps that can be used for this kind of workflow. At some point, I want to provide similar workflow in AeroSpace itself in form of "interactive" commands (WIP name): #236

I will probably reuse terminal + fzf, because I'm bad at writing GUIs, and CLI allows composability

[mode.main.binding]
  alt-p = 'focus --interactive --fzf'

If designed properly, it should be composable:

[mode.main.binding]
  alt-p = 'exec-and-forget aerospace list-windows --workspace focused --interactive --fzf | aerospace focus --window-id -'

focus --interactive is equivalent to aerospace list-windows --all --interactive | aerospace focus --window-id -

[ELLIOTTCABLE]

I'm slightly surprised; that seems so out-of-scope - why not just leave people to pipe aerospace list-windows into their fuzzyfinder tool, and tell it to invoke aerospace focus on whichever they select, as they please?

For that matter, how might one have access to a CLI to perform interactive input when … randomly switching windows on any old workspace!? 😅

(… I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I trust your judgement - just genuinely interested in what feels like it must be a very foreign workflow, to me, to be a valuable feature. It's cool how different folks use computers.)

[edblancas]

I used to use that Raycast feature, but I wanted a list of just the windows in the current Aerospace workspace.
So, I created a simple Raycast extension, which I developed using AI in about an hour.

Here is the GitHub repository in case someone finds the code useful:
aerospace-workspace-windows

Note: The code is not refactored or optimized.

[ELLIOTTCABLE]

This looks cool; but more importantly - I really appreciate you being upfront about it being primarily the product of an ML model. That's really sweet of you. (I'll try to remember to check this out when I'm back at my primary workstation!)