# paste_text

Source: https://libtmux.org/en/rs/latest/mcp/tools/paste_text/

> Put text into a pane through a tmux paste buffer instead of typing it key by key. Use this for anything long or awkward: send_keys types the text, so a shell reading it can react to each character, and a bracketed-paste aware program treats a paste as one block. Optional Enter is appended to that same block. Empty text without Enter is a guarded buffer-free no-op. Paste targets only the named pane, even when synchronized input is enabled. A dead, input-disabled, mode-owned, terminal-attended, or inherited-caller target is refused before setup and again immediately before paste. The private buffer is deleted after setup, refusal, and paste outcomes; observations can still race with tmux. A submitted paste is remembered briefly so wait_for_text can discount its own echo. Send input to a pane's program; a shell that receives it runs it with your user's permissions.

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Put text into a pane through a tmux paste buffer instead of typing it key by key. Use this for anything long or awkward: [send\_keys](https://libtmux.org/en/rs/latest/mcp/tools/send_keys/) types the text, so a shell reading it can react to each character, and a bracketed-paste aware program treats a paste as one block. Optional Enter is appended to that same block. Empty text without Enter is a guarded buffer-free no-op. Paste targets only the named pane, even when synchronized input is enabled. A dead, input-disabled, mode-owned, terminal-attended, or inherited-caller target is refused before setup and again immediately before paste. The private buffer is deleted after setup, refusal, and paste outcomes; observations can still race with tmux. A submitted paste is remembered briefly so [wait\_for\_text](https://libtmux.org/en/rs/latest/mcp/tools/wait_for_text/) can discount its own echo. Send input to a pane’s program; a shell that receives it runs it with your user’s permissions.

[All Rust tools](../) · [JSON](../paste_text.json) · [Source](https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-rs/blob/f0e37052c232636b61d095817046e6bfc8f2ca40/crates/tmux-mcp/src/tools/control.rs#L607)

## Arguments

* `enter` optional · boolean

  Whether to append Enter to the same paste block.

  Default: `false`.

* `pane` required · string

  The \`%\`-prefixed pane to paste into.

* `text` required · string

  The text to deliver.

## Schemas

The schema defines required fields, nested values, defaults, and validation constraints.