Add support for mouse-down drag on mat-tab-group component
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area: material/tabs
feature
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- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Add support for mouse-down drag on mat-tab-group component
right now with a long list of tabs you have to click many times to scroll through.
would be great to just hold down the mouse and swipe in each direction.
see below:

Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the mat-tab-group implementation and its existing tab scrolling behavior. Reproduce the issue with a long list of tabs, then verify that holding the mouse button and moving in either direction scrolls through the tabs as shown in the attached example.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100