# pane.Pane.displayMessage

- **Module:** pane
- **Package:** libtmux
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-ts/blob/073b9d7dedad900bff6f5ec0ea47794e40225870/packages/libtmux/src/pane.ts#L562
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/ts/latest/reference/pane-pane-displaymessage/

```
displayMessage(
  message: string,
): Promise<readonly string[]>
```

Expand a tmux format string against this pane.

## Examples

```ts
const shown = await pane.displayMessage("#{pane_index}");
shown[0];
```

## Parameters

- `message` (`string`)

## tmux command

The tmux commands behind `displayMessage`.

- [`display-message`](/en/tmux/latest/manual/display-message/)

## tmux C API

The C declarations in tmux that implement these commands.

- [`cmd_display_message_entry`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-variable-cmd_display_message_entry/) (attribute)
- [`cmd_display_message_exec`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-function-cmd-display-message-c-cmd_display_message_exec/) (function)

## In other ports

Show a message on the client viewing a pane

| Language | Equivalent |
| --- | --- |
| Python | [`libtmux.Pane.display_message`](/en/py/latest/reference/libtmux-pane-display_message/) (method) |
| Rust | [`pane.Pane.display`](/en/rs/latest/reference/pane-pane-display/) (method) |
| Go | [`tmux.Pane.DisplayMessage`](/en/go/latest/reference/tmux-pane-displaymessage/) (method) |
| Java | no equivalent on `Pane` |
| C# | [`LibTmux.Pane.DisplayMessageAsync`](/en/csharp/latest/reference/libtmux-pane-displaymessageasync/) (method) |
| C++ | [`libtmux::Pane::show_message`](/en/cxx/latest/reference/libtmux-pane-show_message/) (method) |
| Swift | no equivalent on `Pane` |

No equivalent is recorded in Ruby, Lua, PowerShell, Julia, Elixir, Kotlin, Scala or F#.