Ability to reuse existing warp instance from the command line

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start with Warp’s documentation example for using it as an IntelliJ IDEA external tool and trace the command-line integration it describes. Determine how an existing terminal session could be reused across repeated keybindings, including session lifecycle and retained context. Done means repeated invocations reuse the same session instead of opening a new terminal each time.

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Describe the solution you'd like?
In Warp documentation there is a how-to to use warp as a terminal/external tool from Intellij IDEA. If bound to a keystroke, then the command is executed every time the key-binding is hit.

It is not very useful yet because a new terminal session is started every time you hit the key-binding. It would be VERY useful if the same session was kept so that context/work/steps etc could be retained.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm always frustrated when I use the Intellij IDEA example and a new terminal is opened each time i hit the configured key-bindings
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5 (Can't work without it!)

Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:770f6576-d6c0-4e4f-a259-fc64b5156087

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