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Ability to scroll / pan workspace using keyboard #10182

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Keyboard users cannot (as far as I'm aware) scroll / pan the workspace without using a mouse. There is an automatic scroll into view feature when the focused block changes (e.g., focus a block outside of the current viewable area). However, this doesn't cover the use case where the user simply wants to look around without changing the currently the focused block.

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It would be useful to allow keyboard users to scroll / pan the workspace so they can look around without changing what block is currently focussed. Perhaps this can be implemented with a modifier key with arrows (shift + arrows?).

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There was a previous suggestion that when the workspace itself is focused, the arrow keys could scroll / pan, but I think this isn't feasible now that the workspace is a position and using the up / down arrows moves you to the next / previous block.

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