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Early release libtmux is released, and its APIs may still change between releases. This site's structure and URLs may change too.

TypeScript API

method libtmux-ts latest

Pane.sendPrefix

Send the configured prefix key to this pane.

Source and package

Qualified name: Pane.sendPrefix
Module: pane
Declared in: Pane
Package: libtmux
Source: packages/libtmux/src/pane.ts
Other languages: PowerShell Julia Elixir Python Ruby Lua RustGo Java C# C++ Swift Kotlin Scala F#

sendPrefix(): Promise<void> method [source] ¶

Description#

tmux needs a client attached to the session to draw this. With none, it does nothing and reports success, so a headless run is told it worked.

Examples#

await pane.sendPrefix();

tmux command#

The tmux commands behind sendPrefix.

tmux C API#

The C declarations in tmux that implement these commands.

cmd_send_prefix_entry cmd_send_keys_exec

In other ports#

Send the configured prefix key to a pane

Equivalents of Send the configured prefix key to a pane in other languages
Language	Equivalent
Python	`libtmux.Pane.send_prefix`
Rust	`pane.Pane.send_prefix`
Go	`tmux.Pane.SendPrefix`
Java	no equivalent on `Pane`
C#	`LibTmux.Pane.SendPrefixAsync`
C++	no equivalent on `Pane`
Swift	no equivalent on `Pane`

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

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