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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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.

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "enter": {
      "default": false,
      "description": "Whether to append Enter to the same paste block.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "pane": {
      "description": "The `%`-prefixed pane to paste into.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "text": {
      "description": "The text to deliver.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "pane",
    "text"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "bytes": {
      "description": "How many bytes came from `text`, excluding optional Enter.",
      "minimum": 0,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "pane": {
      "description": "The pane it went into.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "pane",
    "bytes"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

{
  "destructiveHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": false,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "readOnlyHint": false,
  "title": "Paste Text Into Pane"
}