Control + n and Control + p to navigate in autocompletion

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The problem

In all Obsidian menus, that provide autocompletion or selection from list (for example: an autocompletion of a [[link]], selection an a file through Cmd+ o or a command through Cmd + p) you can use keyboard arrows and also a Control + n and Control + p to move up and down. But actions, that use Control key is only available when you use a default English keyboard layout.

Steps to reproduce

Behavior on macOS ABC (English default keyboard):

  1. Open Sandbox valut
  2. Open command palette via Cmd + p
  3. Execute Control + n shortcut
  4. Execute Control + p shortcut
  5. Here all goes fine: you selected a next command suggestion and then previous one

Behavior on macOS Russian JCUKEN (also default one)

  1. Open Sandbox valut
  2. Open command palette via Cmd + p
  3. Execute Control + n shortcut
  4. Nothing happens
  5. With arrow down select next suggestion (works fine)
  6. Execute Control + p shortcut
  7. Still nothing happens

Same behavior occurs when you try to move between suggestions in [[link]] autocompletion, but instead of nothing you just got the cursor moving up and down by one line (on Russian keyboard. On English all works as it should be).

Expected result

When you use Control + n and Control + p independently of keyboard layout Obsidian should highlight next and previous suggestion in lists.

Actual result

Navigating through command prompts, links and files only works on the English keyboard layout

Environment

macOS Sequoia 15.5

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.8.10
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	Language: ru
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Additional information

I tried to reproduce all these steps on a Windows system and realized that the Control + n/p key combination is specific to macOS, while on Windows, when you press this combination, regardless of the selected language, nothing happens at all.

As I initially suggested: the problem was in keyboard event triggers, set up on typed key instead of the real one. Here’s the one thins, that changes between layouts: when you type Control + n on Russian keyboard, you will get Control + т. But this can be fixed with using of Physical key codes, that javascript events can generate.

I ran into this problem because I started using vim mode heavily in Obsidian. My take on it would be really great if Obsidian provided the ability to navigate through completion suggestions using the Control keys, which is common in vim.

I also tried to remap Control keys with obsidian vimrc plugin, but got nothing.