Extract arrow key navigation into a reusable hook
Extract the arrow key navigation logic from `MarkdownEditor` into a reusable `useArrowKeyNavigation` navigation hook. This simplifies the MarkdownEditor component and will allow us to enable arrow key navigation more widely thoughout the application. A notable design choice is that the roving tab index state lives in the DOM rather than in Preact. This enables the Preact component-facing API to be very simple: a single hook call in the component that renders the container element (of the toolbar, menu bar etc.). It does mean however that the `tabIndex` state is not accessible to components. This works for the use cases where I have tested it, but we may need to revisit in future. If browsers add a native feature to handle this in future [1], the hook could handle testing for support and using it where available. - Create `useArrowKeyNavigation` navigation hook in `src/shared/keyboard-navigation.js` as a general method of adding arrow key navigation to a composite widget - Modify `MarkdownEditor` to use the `useArrowKeyNavigation` hook to handle arrow key navigation - Replace detailed tests for arrow key navigation in `MarkdownEditor` with more basic tests, as the `useArrowKeyNavigation` tests cover the general functionality in detail [1] eg. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/Focusgroup/explainer.md
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