I originally asked in #compose but linking here because I realize keyboard shortcuts might be more applicable on desktop (also because no one responded 🥲) I posted some of my code in a snippet in a thread on that message. https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1613446388062200?thread_ts=1613446388.062200&cid=CJLTWPH7S

I think keyboard shortcuts for text navigation is something we want to better support out of the box in the upcoming future. In the mean time, if the solution you proposed in your post works for you, then you might as well use it 😉

Feel free to create an issue at https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/issues with your proposals and suggestions, we plan to improve in that direction

I put it in a gist and put the url in a comment in https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/issues/277