Support tmux control mode (-CC flag)

Issue Type: Feature Request

I saw the suggestion from @roblourens to use tmux in microsoft/vscode-remote-release#1185

That’s mostly good, however has a few issues:

• code command doesn’t work inside tmux.
• no GUI support - the built-in tab management and split panes then aren’t usable.
• scrolling doesn’t work (control codes not sent to the terminal?)

I’d love to see support for tmux’s control mode (tmux -CC) - then vscode could use its native tab/window management and sessions would be persisted between app opens/closes.

Extension version: 0.36.0 VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.34.0-insider (daf71423252a707b8e396e8afa8102b717f8213b, 2019-05-06T22:07:35.830Z) OS version: Darwin x64 18.7.0 Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.2.17-1rodete3-amd64

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[nicm]

This came up somewhere else relatively recently so I wrote this page https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Control-Mode which gives a description of control mode.

Control mode was written for iTerm2 and in some ways stopped at the point where it does everything iTerm2 needs, but I’m open to extending it further if needed. If you move forward with this do feel free to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.