# window.Window.setHook

- **Module:** window
- **Package:** libtmux
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-ts/blob/073b9d7dedad900bff6f5ec0ea47794e40225870/packages/libtmux/src/window.ts#L205
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/ts/latest/reference/window-window-sethook/

```
setHook(
  name: string,
  command: string,
  options?: SetHookOptions,
): Promise<void>
```

Bind a tmux command to a window-scoped hook.

## Examples

```ts
await window.setHook("window-renamed", "display-message 'renamed'");
```

## Parameters

- `name` (`string`)
- `command` (`string`)
- `options?` (`SetHookOptions`)

## tmux command

The tmux commands behind `setHook`.

- [`set-hook`](/en/tmux/latest/manual/set-hook/)

## tmux C API

The C declarations in tmux that implement these commands.

- [`cmd_set_hook_entry`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-variable-cmd_set_hook_entry/) (attribute)
- [`cmd_set_option_exec`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-function-cmd-set-option-c-cmd_set_option_exec/) (function)

## tmux hooks

Events that run tmux commands, with the scope each hook belongs to and where tmux fires it.

- [Hooks](/en/tmux/latest/catalog/hooks/) (hook)

## In other ports

Bind a command to a window hook

| Language | Equivalent |
| --- | --- |
| Python | [`libtmux.Window.set_hook`](/en/py/latest/reference/libtmux-window-set_hook/) (method) |
| Lua | [`libtmux.Window:set_hook`](/en/lua/latest/reference/libtmux-window-set_hook/) (method) |
| Rust | [`window.Window.set_hook`](/en/rs/latest/reference/window-window-set_hook/) (method) |
| Go | [`tmux.Window.SetHook`](/en/go/latest/reference/tmux-window-sethook/) (method) |
| Java | reached through `Window.hooks`, whose `Hooks` carries the write |
| C# | reached through `Window.Hooks`, whose `TmuxHooks` carries the write |
| C++ | no equivalent on `Window` |
| Swift | [`Server.setHook(_:to:at:in:)`](/en/swift/latest/reference/server-sethook(_-to-at-in-)/) (method) |

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