fix: Missing Delete key handlers

[matthewlipski]

Summary

This PR adds some additional handling for the Delete key that already exists for the Backspace key.

Rationale

MacOS keyboards don't relaly have a delete key, but Windows keyboards do and it's a fairly commonly used key, so it makes sense to have better support for it.

Changes

• Cleaned up handler for merging blocks, when Delete is pressed at the end of a block with inline content while the next block also has inline content.
• Added handler for deleting the current block and moving the selection to the start of the next one, when Delete is pressed in an empty block.
• Added handler for deleting the next block, if it has no content and isn't a table. If that block has children, they are lifted out.
• Added getNextBlockInfo helper.

Impact

N/A

Testing

TODO? We also have pretty limited tests for Backspace handling. I'm a bit hesitant to add them though as they would currently have to be e2e tests, so would prefer to set up component testing first.

Screenshots/Video

N/A

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: 9787e87

[nperez0111]

todo

[matthewlipski]

Since this case is for deleting columns/column lists, I'd rather wait until #2110 is merged before fixing this.

[nperez0111]

Will hold on this until we get that PR through