Request: ctrl-click to open tabs new ephemeral panes, click to return to single pane (like Sublime Text)

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Describe the feature

Hello, and thanks for this excellent project!

I'm one of those optimistically trying to switch from Sublime Text, and this is one of the things I'm hoping for, for which I don't see an existing issue.

Currently when I have two or more tabs open, with only one pane, and I want to open one or more unfocused existing tabs in new panes, for each one I:

hit my shortcut for pane::SplitRight
read the new pane's tab title and see it's the same as the previous pane
move the cursor to the top left and drag the tab I want to the new pane
read both tab titles in the new pane to see which one I want and which I don't
click the close button on the tab I don't want
do my editing
first time:
- hit my shortcut for pane::CloseAllItems because I thought it might work like Sublime's set_layout
- realize this actually closes the tabs, not just the panes, and unset the shortcut
- try to remember which tabs were just open and reopen them
subsequent times:
- drag each tab from other panes back to the first pane until only one pane remains

In Sublime Text, I:

ctrl-click the tab I want to see in the new pane
do my editing
click the tab I want to be my single pane, or use my shortcut for 1-pane layout

So I'm requesting a similar workflow possibility, wherein I can directly choose an existing tab to be opened in a new pane, and directly close all secondary panes, without losing any open tabs.

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zed-industries / zed