Add Show File Item in the Right-Click Menu of the Tab Item

Jack Ye

I need show file item in the right-click menu of the tab item so that I don't need to firstly click show in library and then click show file item.
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dstillman

Can you explain why you want that?

Jack Ye

Sure. When I have opened a tab to view one paper and I have some problems understanding some contents, I want to use other tools to assist me understand it (e.g. use edge plugin to translate the paper).

dstillman

OK. That's fair, but various uses of Show File are fairly incompatible with using the reader — Zotero annotations won't show up, direct changes to the file can cause annotations to become misplaced, etc. — so we're a bit hesitant to make it directly accessible from the reader.

This is something a plugin could offer for people who understood the implications, though.

(You may know this, but there's also a translation plugin you can use within Zotero, though I don't know its current status.)

Jack Ye

Okay, that is reasonable. Thanks for your clarification.