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Add support for rotating panes around in the window, without changing the layout

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#10,757 opened on Jul 22, 2021

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Description

In tmux it's possible to move/swap opened panes in different ways.

Moving panes around in tmux:

C-a C-o        rotate window ‘up’ (i.e. move all panes)
C-a M-o        rotate window ‘down’

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tmux.1.html:

     rotate-window [-DUZ] [-t target-window]
                   (alias: rotatew)
             Rotate the positions of the panes within a window, either
             upward (numerically lower) with -U or downward (numerically
             higher).  -Z keeps the window zoomed if it was zoomed.

From @kostrse in #4922

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Research direction
Investigate the pane layout data structure in Windows Terminal (e.g., how panes are stored and ordered). Look at existing implementations of pane rotation in tools like tmux for reference. Then implement a function to rotate pane positions within a window, updating the layout accordingly.
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