Automatic menu with selection
It would be helpful - when two or more references are selected - to have the context menu appear automatically rather it require a right-click.
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I've never seen that behavior (which in itself would seem like an argument against doing it).
Yes, in fact, Sente has an automatic pop-up window in their citation look-up feature that appears once you highlight a search text phrase (e.g. title). Of course what i propose is a bit different but still related to automating part of the workflow. It's just a pain to 2-finger tap/ scroll/ click when performing repeated actions on 2 or more items, e.g. merging multiple duplicates after import. I suppose it could have other uses as well. Sounds patentable to me, but then that wouldn't be open source. ;)
Specifically for your proposal, though, I really dislike the idea. I select multiple items all the time and use the context menu less than half of the time (mostly that is drag and drop - not just for groups, but also for tags and for quick copy - but there is also non drag&drop case, e.g. when I'm looking at citations in the test pane).
A delay won't work: If the context menu takes 5secs to come up automatically it's useless. If it takes less than that, it's annoying every time you don't need it.
Ideally, btw., this should all be possible via keyboard, which it is on linux and I believe on Windows, but afaik you can't get context menus via keyboard on a Mac.