And the arrow keys and the spacebar are supposed to scroll, and backspace is supposed to go back a page, and enter is supposed to submit, and forward slash is s

And the arrow keys and the spacebar are supposed to scroll, and backspace is supposed to go back a page, and enter is supposed to submit, and forward slash is supposed to open a search box. We manage, by making our software intelligently adapt to the context. Most of the time, ability to insert a tab character is less important than the ability to change focus. In a dedicated source code editor, however, this is not the case.