In Snow Leopard, it was possible to display the space number in the top right corner of the status bar.
How do you do that in Lion with Mission Control?
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Maybe the open source WhichSpace project can do this:
WhichSpace
Have you ever forgotten which space is currently active on OS X (10.11+) and wanted a quick way to tell? Didn't think so... but I did!
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If you activate Mission Control whilst hovering the mouse over an app in the dock, it will do an Exposé for that app.
Activating Mission Control any other time will do a global Exposé as you say.
While in mission control, if you slide one finger up on the magic mouse (imagine it's a 2 two finger swipe with a trackpad) whilst hovering over the app windows, it'll Exposé the selected app's windows
In one of the earlier developer previews you could slide one finger up (on the magic mouse) over a dock icon while in Mission Control and it would trigger a per-app Exposé. Alas, it seems this feature has been removed.
There could be a hidden switch to turn it back on, but I've not had a play around with those 'secrets' apps to have a look yet.
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Best Answer
This function was removed by design. Lots of people want this back, so perhaps an add on or secret setting can be discovered later, but for now, the answer is no.