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tmux

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method libtmux stable

EnvironmentMixin.set_environment

Set environment $ tmux set-environment <name> <value>.

Source and package

Qualified name: libtmux.common.EnvironmentMixin.set_environment
Module: libtmux.common
Declared in: EnvironmentMixin
Package: libtmux
Source: src/libtmux/common.py

set_environment ( self, name: str, value: str, expand_format: bool | None = None, hidden: bool | None = None, ) → None method [source] ¶

Parameters

name (str) # – The environment variable name, e.g. 'PATH'.
value (str) # – Environment value.
expand_format (bool | None) # – Expand tmux format strings in the value (-F flag). added 0.56
hidden (bool | None) # – Mark the variable as hidden (-h flag). added 0.56

Raises

ValueError – If tmux returns an error.

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