BibTeX export uses editor instead of author for key generation

When using the BibTeX export, Zotero generates BibTeX keys using a person, a word from the title, and the year. But unfortunately, it uses the editor’s name, even if an author is given. This makes it hard to find the right key in LaTeX editors that provide BibTeX key autocompletion: Normally, you can just start typing the author’s name, and get all matching keys, but this is a lot less intuitive when you have to type the editor’s name.

Fixing this might be a bit tricky, as just changing the key generation rules would break existing LaTeX documents that rely on the current key generation rules. Maybe one could add an option for this to the export options?

Regards,
Frederik
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