feat: move tab to an existing window by orientation #4417
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Description
Following the PR at #3925 -- this PR adds a new feature, to move the current tab to an existing window.
This solution takes a different approach, and merges the tab to an existing window, by the relative direction, in order to provide a quicker and seamless motions, following the hjkl paradigm:
wh
will move the tab to a window on the leftwl
will move the tab to a window on the rightwk
will move the tab to a window abovewj
will move the tab to a window belowAn example use case would be when a user moves a tab to a new window using the existing
W
binding, and now wants to merge to back to the previous window, this feature adds this option, by allowing them to merge it usingwh
as an example, if the previous window was to the left of the new one.This also allows moving tabs between existing windows in order to rearrange the tabs between windows without using the mouse.