keyboard
I basically use US keyboard for programming and Spanish for everything else, and I´m always switching keyboard layout when I change from browser to VIM or console.
In Linux (gnome), keyboard layout was a per application preference, that the window manager remembered automatically, so for every application, if you switched keyboard layout, when you focus back to that application the keyboard layout would change for you.
Is there any way of doing this in OSX Lion?
The standard U.S. layout has a few dead key states under ⌥:
` isn't a dead key in U.S. Extended:
If you want to leave the left ⌥ free for other functions, you can create a custom .keylayout with Ukelele.
Use Ctrl + the arrow keys:
Ctrl + Right: switch to next space / maximized app to the right.
Ctrl + Left: switch to next space / maximized app to the left
Ctrl + Up: Exposé / Mission control showing everything
Ctrl + Down: Exposé for just the windows of the current app
Best Answer
If you go to System Preferences -> Language & Text -> Input Sources, you should have the option to "Allow a different one for each document" under Input source options.
The change is per document and not per application, but unless you change the setting for one document when you have several open you might not even notice the difference.