# io.github.libtmux.Pane.Pane.paste

- **Module:** io.github.libtmux.Pane.Pane
- **Package:** io.github.libtmux:libtmux
- **Language:** Java
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-java/blob/c3517519ee799428a809ce6deb1708c8be289cd1/libtmux/src/main/java/io/github/libtmux/Pane.java#L526
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/reference/java/io-github-libtmux-pane-pane-paste/

```
io.github.libtmux.Pane.Pane.paste(text: String) -> void
```

Pastes text into this pane as one block, leaving nothing behind on the server.

<p>Nothing in the text is looked up as a key name, so a line containing {@code Enter} or a
bracket arrives as those characters. That is what an editor, a REPL, or anything reading a
here-document needs, and it is the difference from {@link #send}.

<p>tmux needs a buffer to paste from, and this one travels in the same invocation as the paste
that consumes it. A caller that stops in between therefore cannot leave the text in the paste
history every session on the server can read.

<p>The text goes to tmux on standard input rather than as an argument, so it is not bounded by
the size of a tmux command and never reaches tmux's parser.

## Raises

- `IllegalArgumentException` — if the text contains NUL, which a terminal cannot receive and {@link #send} refuses too
- `UnsupportedTmuxVersion` — before tmux 3.4, where deleting the buffer left by a failed paste can remove one this did not create