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tmux.Pane.SendKeys

Module: tmux
Declared in: Pane
Package: github.com/libtmux/libtmux-go/tmux
Source: tmux/pane_input.go
Other languages: Python TypeScript Rust Java .NET C++Swift

SendKeys ( ctx : context.Context , request : SendKeysRequest ) → error method [source] ¶ method [source] ¶ SendKeys

SendKeys invokes tmux send-keys with the receiver's exact linked session-window-pane target. This is tmux key input, not shell execution: Literal only changes tmux key parsing, and any delivered text may still be interpreted by the pane's application. KeyName routes through a client's key table instead of delivering to the pane.

KeyName and TargetClient require tmux 3.4 and follow UnsupportedPolicy .

Completed exit status and stderr are ignored. Transport and context errors are delivery-ambiguous, including between Command and the separate Enter.

In other languages Send keystrokes to a pane

Python libtmux.Pane.send_keys
TypeScript pane.Pane.sendKeys
Rust pane.Pane.send_keys
Java no direct equivalent; `Pane.paste` writes a buffer instead
.NET LibTmux.Pane.SendKeysAsync
C++ libtmux::Pane::send_text
Swift Server.sendKeys(_:to:literally:)

Examples

Python TypeScript

>>> pane = window.split(shell='sh')
>>> pane.capture_pane()
['$']

>>> pane.send_keys('echo "Hello world"', enter=True)

>>> pane.capture_pane()
['$ echo "Hello world"', 'Hello world', '$']

>>> print('\n'.join(pane.capture_pane()))  # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
$ echo "Hello world"
Hello world
$

Flag-only invocation — reset terminal state without sending any keys:

>>> pane.send_keys(reset=True)

await pane.sendKeys("echo hello");
await pane.sendKeys("C-c", { literal: false });

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