Keyboard shortcut for tab character is needed to insert a tab and/or indent list item

[jb510]

It's impossible to insert a real tab character or indent a list using the keyboard. Perhaps these should be two issues, but for me it's simply the need for a keyboard shortcut that does both things.

In the name of accessibility and avoiding a keyboard tab trap the tab key is used to navigate between blocks. I still think that is a design flaw and an alternative should have been specified to "exit the editor" like Google Docs does (alt-tab). However, there then needs to be an alternative keyboard shortcut added to actually indent a list and/or insert a tab character.

This was raised many times, a few of those:
#4181
#5087
#7051

Use cases:

1. Indenting lists via the keyboard (which is needed for a11y reasons as well)
2. Indenting lines inside a pre blocks (for example code snippets)

Please note: This is not the same thing as using the TinyMCE indent/outdent icons (which also need keyboard shortcuts) as they add/remove inline padding to the html element, not insert an actual tab character.

[mrwweb]

At a bare minimum there has to be a keyboard shortcut to indent lists.

[mbedded]

That's true. I was using the new editor for the first time and i was sketching some items i want to discuss/explain in my article. And "TAB" did not indent my list. That's a default behavior in so many applications.

[gziolo]

Agreed about tab support. Let's close this one as a duplicate of #9611.