New action `Restart this tab` in the tab's topbar context menu

[vadimkantorov]

Description of the new feature

This is useful when a tab is completely hung because of hung ssh session in a tab (e.g. happens when you have ssh connection, shut the laptop lid, then wake it up without wifi). In this state of ssh blocking in some I/O (under WSLv1 Ubuntu 24.04), the tab does not respond to any input, including Ctrl + Z and one has to wait for minutes until it prints client_loop: send disconnect: Connection reset by peer (I'll try using also the tilde commands, but they won't work for some other non-ssh I/O blocked tab anyways). If it's possible to also send some Linux signal into the tab (Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Z)

It is then useful to be able to restart this particular tab to not need to start a new one and then move it with a mouse to keep the tab order the same

Proposed technical implementation details

No response

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Regarding Duplicate tab: currently the new duplicate tab gets placed at the right end of the topbar, not next to the duplicate tab. I would suggest that it the new tab should be placed right after the original one - just like in Chrome

[DHowett]

We should probably put it in the menu.

For now, you can get at it with the command palette under the name "restart connection".

[vadimkantorov]

For Duplicate tab - also please consider creating the new tab right next to the old one (similar to Chrome) and not flushed to the right

And the other idea - is to be able to send some Linux signals (equivalent to Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z) also directly from the context menu...