# server.Server.buffer

- **Module:** server.Server
- **Package:** libtmux
- **Language:** Rust
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-rs/blob/8a648c0894dfffc9303583f753b6c8ae01f2fe76/crates/libtmux/src/server.rs#L784
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/reference/rs/server-server-buffer/

```
server.Server.buffer(self, name: &str) -> Result<Option<Vec<u8>>, Error>
```

Read a paste buffer's exact bytes.

Returns `None` when no buffer has that name. Buffer contents are
arbitrary bytes, so this is not a string.

# Errors

Returns an error when tmux cannot be reached.