fix: Backspace/enter behaviour in empty block with children

[matthewlipski]

Summary

There are currently 2 issues with backspace/enter handling in empty blocks with children:

• When pressing enter, a new block is created and the selection is moved to it, but the child blocks are not moved to it.
• When pressing backspace, if the previous block is also empty, the child blocks are deleted instead of being un-nested.

Closes #1593

Rationale

This is a bug affecting core functionality.

Changes

Added handling for children in relevnt keyboard handlers.

Impact

N/A

Testing

Added e2e tests.

Screenshots/Video

Checklist

• Code follows the project's coding standards.
• Unit tests covering the new feature have been added.
• All existing tests pass.
• The documentation has been updated to reflect the new feature

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commit: c37bb5e

[nperez0111]

@matthewlipski it's good that we don't lose content anymore, but in this case, I find the result unexpected, I would expect the item to preserve it's indentation not collapse because I removed the empty line
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/178cad72-f2ed-4d05-b521-83e8ec32cea5

[nperez0111]

Code seems fine, could do with some comments since this is a bit convoluted

[matthewlipski]

@matthewlipski it's good that we don't lose content anymore, but in this case, I find the result unexpected, I would expect the item to preserve it's indentation not collapse because I removed the empty line https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/178cad72-f2ed-4d05-b521-83e8ec32cea5

Ah, so I do kind of agree but this is the same behaviour as Notion, so imo it's better to keep it the way it is:

Screen.Recording.2026-02-17.at.16.57.40.mov

[nperez0111]

It handles list items differently. So weird decision on their part, imo I would prefer what I'd described, but doesn't have to block this issue if you feel differently