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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.

Python API

method libtmux latest

Pane.send_prefix

Send the prefix key to the pane via $ tmux send-prefix.

Source and package

Qualified name: libtmux.Pane.send_prefix
Module: libtmux
Declared in: Pane
Package: libtmux
Source: src/libtmux/pane.py
Other languages: Perl Erlang PowerShell Julia Elixir Haskell Common Lisp Ruby Lua TypeScriptRustGo Java C# C++ Swift Kotlin Scala OCaml F# Clojure

send_prefix (self, secondary: bool | None = None) → None method [source] ¶

Examples#

>>> pane.send_prefix()

Parameters

secondary (bool | None) # – Send the secondary prefix key (-2 flag).

tmux command#

The tmux commands behind send_prefix.

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
Haskell	No public Haskell equivalent is implemented; the current modules expose scalar values and version parsing.
TypeScript	`pane.Pane.sendPrefix`
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`
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#.

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