keyboard shortcut for opening pdf

monsanto · February 11, 2012

It isn't possible to use Zotero by keyboard at the moment because one can't open PDFs with the keyboard. Can we add this feature?

adamsmith · February 11, 2012

you should be able to open the context menu of an item from your keyboard. In Windows and linux, the right system key (to the right of AltGr) does that. I would imagine in Mac the right option key would?
you can then scroll to view pdf.

dstillman · February 11, 2012

We should probably make Return/Enter on the attachment do this. There's not really an easy way to do this on a Mac. (I think you have to either use Mouse Keys or a third-party program.)

We could also conceivably override the expand action on the parent, since it's a duplicate of right-arrow.

adamsmith · February 11, 2012

agreed that return should do that - was certainly the first thing I tried.

dstillman · February 17, 2012

Issue created.

reimerth · April 25, 2012

Hi. Is 'Enter' to open an attachment still being considered? I'm very fond of expanding items with the arrow keys, and Enter to open the pdf seems natural to me. I use the standalone, so I only have my default viewer as an option: is the browser/external viewer decision maybe forestalling this implementation?

adamsmith · April 25, 2012

I believe that the only thing forestalling implementation is that someone has to do it.

reimerth · April 25, 2012

I pick you! ;)

mronkko · April 25, 2012

You could probably accomplish this already by using ZoteroQuickLook and configuring your default PDF reader as the quicklook command. ( I assume that this is the third party software that Dan is referring to)

dstillman · April 25, 2012

I just meant some program that allows mouse operations via the keyboard in order to access the context menu.

dstillman · November 1, 2012

Return/Enter will be equivalent to double-click in 3.0.9.