[FEATURE] Add Ctrl+J/Ctrl+K navigation in menu bar (Vim-friendly)

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What do you want to change or add?
Add Vim-style keyboard navigation support to the project's menu bar (e.g., the "Commands" panel in the attached screenshot):

Bind Ctrl+K to move upward between menu options
Bind Ctrl+J to move downward between menu options

What are the benefits of implementing this?

Improves efficiency for Vim developers: they can navigate menus without switching to mouse/other keys, keeping a keyboard-first workflow
Enhances accessibility for a common developer group (Vim users), reducing friction when using the project's interface

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

[FEATURE]: better navigation of output, alternative vim mode and non-blocking agent persmission requests #4092: [FEATURE] Better navigation of output, alternative vim mode and non-blocking agent permission requests - includes discussion about vim-style navigation and command modes
[FEATURE]: vim motions in input box #1764: [FEATURE] vim motions in input box - requests vim keyboard shortcuts in the prompt area
[FEATURE]: Support multi-letter keybindings after leader key (e.g., <leader>bb) #6230: [FEATURE] Support multi-letter keybindings after leader key - related to vim-style keybinding namespaces

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.

For keybind-related issues, please also check our pinned keybinds documentation: #4997

Expected to get this feature

I would've thought you could implement via:

"keybinds": {
   "input_newline": "shift+return,ctrl+return,alt+return",
   "input_move_up": "ctrl+k",
   "input_move_down": "ctrl+j",
   "history_previous": "ctrl+j"
}

but nope. Why is this?

Fix anomalyco#7056

It turns out that the lists in the TUI dialogs have some hardcoded handlers. My proposed fix is to make a change where the key events are already hardcoded in dialog-select.tsx. The only intentional tradeoff I know of is in a dialog like /themes where you preview themes as you navigate. With ctrl+k, either you get the preview, or you get "input_delete_to_line_end" but not both. I chose the preview, as it's consistent with ctrl+j. My proposed change is over here: dblume/opencode@dev...dblume-fix-opencode7056

@kommander

@kommander , I hope the PR mentioned above is acceptable. I think it adds useful and desired functionality.

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