diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f76430cd56..20c0445c88 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 ### Improvements
 
+- Enable toolbar/menu items for the document editor even when the focus in on the inspector.
 - Display a warning if custom setting names contain “:”.
 - [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 15.4.
 
diff --git a/CotEditor/Sources/WindowContentViewController.swift b/CotEditor/Sources/WindowContentViewController.swift
index 0409d0c1a8..bb0e9fa746 100644
--- a/CotEditor/Sources/WindowContentViewController.swift
+++ b/CotEditor/Sources/WindowContentViewController.swift
@@ -99,6 +99,20 @@ final class WindowContentViewController: NSSplitViewController {
     }
     
     
+    override func supplementalTarget(forAction action: Selector, sender: Any?) -> Any? {
+        
+        // reel responders from the ideal first responder in the content view
+        // for when the actual first responder is on the sidebar/inspector
+        if let textView = self.documentViewController?.focusedTextView,
+           let responder = sequence(first: textView, next: \.nextResponder).first(where: { $0.responds(to: action) })
+        {
+            responder
+        } else {
+            super.supplementalTarget(forAction: action, sender: sender)
+        }
+    }
+    
+    
     override func validateUserInterfaceItem(_ item: any NSValidatedUserInterfaceItem) -> Bool {
         
         switch item.action {