Belated question @marcelgerber @ingorichter: any idea why this doesn't get snarled up by colliding with the global Ctrl-Tab shortcut for navigating between editors? Is it because we're in a modal dialog here and native menu commands are disabled while a modal is open? (On Windows at least, the menu items themselves remain enabled though, so I'm surprised that doesn't "eat" the key event). Have we tested to make sure this works ok with the non-native HTML menu bar, e.g. on Linux?

It works for me on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04).

Answering the 2nd part of my own question -- it does work with HTML menus, because Dialogs disables regular KeyBindingManager handling too.

@marcelgerber is using "keyup" events here and global shortcuts work on keydown events.

@RaymondLim is right, I didn't get an keydown event for "Tab" key. At first I thought it was a bug...