Set the environment for new panes

A native server selects tmux’s global environment; a native session selects its local environment. Reads return that table’s entries without merging inherited values. Changes affect future processes. They do not change the environment of a process already running in a pane.

Read a stored value from a previously selected $session:

$session | Get-TmuxEnvironment -Name 'APP_MODE'

Omit -Name to list visible entries. Results are native CTmuxEnvironmentEntry objects with pName, pValue and pIsRemoved. A missing variable produces no object.

Set a value for future panes and inspect the stored result:

$session | Set-TmuxEnvironment -Name 'APP_MODE' -Value 'development' -PassThru

An empty string remains a present value. Without -PassThru, setting emits no success output. -ExpandFormats asks tmux to expand the value as a format before storage.

Forget the local entry so a global value can apply again:

$session | Remove-TmuxEnvironment -Name 'APP_MODE'

Suppress inherited values in new pane processes instead:

$session | Remove-TmuxEnvironment -Name 'APP_MODE' -MarkRemoved

-MarkRemoved retains an entry with IsRemoved = true and Value = null. Unsetting, marking removed and setting an empty string are distinct tmux operations.

Set-TmuxEnvironment -Hidden keeps a variable available to tmux formats but excludes it from new child environments and ordinary reads. Its native -PassThru result has Value = null and IsRemoved = false; the null value means readback is unavailable, not that the variable is empty or removed.

Set and Remove support -WhatIf and -Confirm; previews contact no server. Errors retain the original core exception and owner. -ErrorAction Continue permits later owners; Stop terminates the pipeline. Cancellation cannot undo a dispatched mutation.