Window.show_message
Show a message to the clients watching this window's session.
Source and package
- Qualified name
-
libtmux::Window:: show _message - Namespace
- libtmux
- Declared in
Window- Package
- libtmux-cxx
- Source
- include/libtmux/entities.hpp
- Other languages
- Perl Erlang PowerShell Julia Elixir Haskell Common Lisp Python Ruby Lua TypeScript RustGo Java C# 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.]] expected<void, CommandFailure > show_message(std::string text) const;_view -
Description#
The window is the context the text expands in, not just who sees it:
#{window_name}in a message sent from here names this window even while another is the active one.- Parameters
tmux command#
The tmux commands behind show_message.
tmux C API#
The C declarations in tmux that implement these commands.
In other ports#
Show a message on the client viewing a window
| Language | Equivalent |
|---|---|
| Python | libtmux |
| Haskell | No public Haskell equivalent is implemented; the current modules expose scalar values and version parsing. |
| TypeScript | no equivalent on Window |
| Rust | window |
| Go | tmux |
| Java | no equivalent on Window |
| C# | Lib |
| Swift | no equivalent on Window |
| 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#.