# error.Error.LinkGone

- **Module:** error.Error
- **Package:** libtmux
- **Language:** Rust
- **Kind:** constant
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-rs/blob/f0e37052c232636b61d095817046e6bfc8f2ca40/crates/libtmux/src/error.rs#L878
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/rs/latest/reference/error-error-linkgone/

A target found nothing, which does not prove the object is gone.

Distinct from [`Self::ObjectGone`], and the distinction decides whether
a caller may discard a handle: the object may be perfectly alive,
linked into another session or sitting at another index. What is known
is only that this target resolved to nothing.

tmux answers a missing target by echoing it back, and the echo settles
which of the two happened for some target forms and not others. A
coordinate -- an index, or a window name, written `session:index` --
is scoped to one session and is not unique on the server, so its
absence is always this error and never the other. An identity carries
its kind's sigil (`@` a window, `%` a pane) and echoes identically
whether the object died or merely lives under another session's link,
so telling those apart costs a lookup and belongs to the caller that
can afford one.

[`Self::is_object_gone`] answers `false`: a handle whose object is
still running must not be dropped on this evidence.