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Dragging a non-focused tab should make it the active tab
Windows Terminal version
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Steps to reproduce
- Create several terminal tabs
- Focus on one tab to make it the current terminal view
- Drag one of the unfocused tabs to change its order among the other tabs
- The focus remains on the previous tab (step 2)
Expected Behavior
Clicking on a tab to reposition it should also cause it to become the active tab. This is how Edge works, and so this breaks a popular consistency expectation in the UI. Clicking a tab (on mousedown or dragstart) should also make that tab the active terminal.
A potentially dangerous result from this is assuming the moved tab has also made it the currently active terminal view when in fact it isn't. Typing a destructive command into that terminal may be applied to the wrong view. In the case of several ssh sessions, possibly with many different theming colors that could make it non-obvious which tab is active, this could impact the wrong server.
If there is a configurable setting for this, I propose the default behavior be changed to be safer. (I'd also like to know what that setting is)
Actual Behavior
Clicking and dragging a tab to reposition it moves it in the tab bar, but leaves the active terminal view where it was rather than making the moved tab the current terminal view.
