Context menus

If you want to open up a context menu, use Menu:

import { Menu, Notice, Plugin } from "obsidian";

export default class ExamplePlugin extends Plugin {
  async onload() {
    this.addRibbonIcon("dice", "Open menu", (event) => {
      const menu = new Menu(this.app);

      menu.addItem((item) =>
        item
          .setTitle("Copy")
          .setIcon("documents")
          .onClick(() => {
            new Notice("Copied");
          })
      );

      menu.addItem((item) =>
        item
          .setTitle("Paste")
          .setIcon("paste")
          .onClick(() => {
            new Notice("Pasted");
          })
      );

      menu.showAtMouseEvent(event);
    });
  }
}

showAtMouseEvent() opens the menu where you clicked with the mouse.

tip

If you need more control of where the menu appears, you can use menu.showAtPosition({ x: 20, y: 20 }) to open the menu at a position relative to the top-left corner of the Obsidian window.

For more information on what icons you can use, refer to Icons.

You can also add an item to the file menu, or the editor menu, by subscribing to the file-menu and editor-menu workspace events:

import { Notice, Plugin } from "obsidian";

export default class ExamplePlugin extends Plugin {
  async onload() {
    this.registerEvent(
      this.app.workspace.on("file-menu", (menu, file) => {
        menu.addItem((item) => {
          item
            .setTitle("Print file path 👈")
            .setIcon("document")
            .onClick(async () => {
              new Notice(file.path);
            });
        });
      })
    );

  this.registerEvent(
      this.app.workspace.on("editor-menu", (menu, editor, view) => {
        menu.addItem((item) => {
          item
            .setTitle("Print file path 👈")
            .setIcon("document")
            .onClick(async () => {
              new Notice(view.file.path);
            });
        });
      })
    );
  }
}

For more information on handling events, refer to Events.