C++ API

method libtmux-cxx latest

Session.select_next_window

Move the selection, and answer with the window it landed on.

Source and package

Qualified name: libtmux::Session::select_next_window
Namespace: libtmux
Declared in: Session
Package: libtmux-cxx
Source: include/libtmux/entities.hpp
Other languages: Perl Erlang PowerShell Julia Elixir Haskell Common Lisp Python Ruby Lua TypeScript RustGoJavaC#Swift Kotlin Scala OCaml F# Clojure

[[C++ nodiscard attributeAsks the compiler to warn when a result is discarded. An explicit cast to void acknowledges that the result is intentionally ignored.Language documentation]] expected<Window, CommandFailure> select_next_window() const; method readonly [source] ¶: Description#

Named for what they do rather than for what they return: next_window() would read as a question, and these change which window is active.
Relative navigation is tmux's to perform, not a caller's to compute. Next and previous wrap around the window list, and "last" means the previously selected window — state only the server holds, which a caller listing windows has no way to reconstruct.
Each fails when there is nowhere to go, as tmux does: a session with one window refuses all three rather than selecting the window already active.

tmux command#

The tmux commands behind select_next_window.

The C declarations in tmux that implement these commands.

Move to the next window of a session

Equivalents of Move to the next window of a session in other languages
Language	Equivalent
Python	`libtmux.Session.next_window`
Haskell	No public Haskell equivalent is implemented; the current modules expose scalar values and version parsing.
TypeScript	`Session.selectWindow` takes `next`, `previous` or `last`
Rust	`session.Session.next_window`
Go	`tmux.Session.NextWindow`
Java	`io.github.libtmux.Session.nextWindow`
C#	`LibTmux.Session.SelectNextWindowAsync`
Swift	`Server.selectNextWindow(in:)`
OCaml	No direct public OCaml equivalent is recorded for this operation.
Perl	No dedicated equivalent in the selected Perl surface. Explicit Server::cmd remains available for native tmux commands.

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