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Open file also from tex tree

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#48 opened on Feb 28, 2018

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Description

I love the ability of texstudio to right click on an included file and open it from the context menu. This works really great for files with a specified path or which are simply in the current working directory.

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It would be nice if this could be expanded to files in the tex tree, e.g. if the file does not specify a path and is not found in the current working directory, one could use something equivalent to the command line expression

open `kpsewhich ushyphex.tex`

to open a file which is somewhere in the tex tree.

(Full disclosure: I just asked a loosely related question on tex.stackexchange how to write a user macro with the same effect, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/417727/36296)

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Research direction
Add logic to search the tex tree using kpsewhich when the file path is not specified or not found in the current working directory.
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