# LibTmux::Async::Server::show_buffer

- **Module:** LibTmux::Async
- **Package:** LibTmux-Async
- **Language:** Perl
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-perl/blob/352715a4fa66a96eed7763b90daaa536aa2f121d/packages/async/lib/LibTmux/Async/Server.pm#L102
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/perl/latest/reference/libtmux-async-server-show_buffer/

```
sub show_buffer($self, %args)
```

See [`"show_buffer" in LibTmux::Server`](/en/perl/latest/reference/libtmux-server-show_buffer/) for arguments, returned value, and completion.

## Methods

## Parameters

- `args`

## tmux command

The tmux commands behind `show_buffer`.

- [`show-buffer`](/en/tmux/latest/manual/show-buffer/)

## tmux C API

The C declarations in tmux that implement these commands.

- [`cmd_show_buffer_entry`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-variable-cmd_show_buffer_entry/) (attribute)
- [`cmd_save_buffer_exec`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-function-cmd-save-buffer-c-cmd_save_buffer_exec/) (function)

## In other ports

Read a paste buffer's contents

| Language | Equivalent |
| --- | --- |
| Python | [`libtmux.Server.show_buffer`](/en/py/latest/reference/libtmux-server-show_buffer/) (method) |
| Ruby | [`LibTmux::Server#read_buffer`](/en/ruby/latest/reference/libtmux-server-read_buffer/) (method) |
| Lua | [`libtmux.Server:show_buffer`](/en/lua/latest/reference/libtmux-server-show_buffer/) (method) |
| Erlang | [`tmux_buffer:show/2`](/en/erlang/latest/reference/tmux_buffer-show-2/) (function) |
| Haskell | No public Haskell equivalent is implemented; the current modules expose scalar values and version parsing. |
| TypeScript | [`server.Server.showBuffer`](/en/ts/latest/reference/server-server-showbuffer/) (method) |
| Rust | [`server.Server.buffer`](/en/rs/latest/reference/server-server-buffer/) (method) |
| Go | [`tmux.Server.ShowBuffer`](/en/go/latest/reference/tmux-server-showbuffer/) (method) |
| Java | no equivalent on `Server` |
| C# | [`LibTmux.TmuxBuffers.GetAsync`](/en/csharp/latest/reference/libtmux-tmuxbuffers-getasync/) (method) |
| C++ | no equivalent on `Server` |
| Swift | [`Server.buffer(named:)`](/en/swift/latest/reference/server-buffer(named-)/) (method) |
| OCaml | No direct public OCaml equivalent is recorded for this operation. |

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