Feature request: Activate Return key for manual entry of multiple authors

AdeleEff
Hello --

Sometimes items have many authors. When manually adding authors to an item, currently one can enter the last name, then tab to first name. To add another author, you have to click the tiny plus icon. The Return key doesn't do anything useful.

Suggestion: Activate the Return key to add a line for another author.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Shift-Return
  • AdeleEff
    Why not activate the usual action of Return?
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Because Return does what it does everywhere else in the item pane — save what you entered and return focus to the items list.
  • AdeleEff
    Doesn't Zotero autosave? I've never used Return to save content, I've been switching from one icon to another.

    When manually entering the Info for an item, I'd want to stay in the Info area, not switch focus to the main item listing -- which I can easily do by clicking on it.

    In entering tags, Return acts as usual -- starts a new line.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited 16 days ago
    It saves whenever the field loses focus — my point is just that Return returns focus to the items list. You can try this yourself with any other field (except for Extra, which is a large textbox). If you want focus to stay in the info pane when editing a field, you use Tab.

    There's no particular reason to think that someone just editing a creator wants to add a new one, so it doesn't merit different behavior from every other field. If you want a new creator, you can use Shift-Return or Tab to the + button and press Return/Space. Tags are in a different pane and are inherently something you're likely to add a bunch of, so they have different behavior.
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