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option tmux3.7c

pane-border-lines

Set the type of characters used for drawing pane borders.

Scope
window
Type
Choice
Default
single
Values
single double heavy simple number spaces
Set
set-option -w pane-border-lines value
Read
show-options -w pane-border-lines

Description#

Set the type of characters used for drawing pane borders. type may be one of:
single
single lines using ACS or UTF-8 characters
double
double lines using UTF-8 characters
heavy
heavy lines using UTF-8 characters
simple
simple ASCII characters
number
the pane number
spaces
space characters

‘double’ and ‘heavy’ will fall back to standard ACS line drawing when UTF-8 is not supported.

Releases#

  • tmux 3.7c : values single, double, heavy, simple, number to single, double, heavy, simple, number, spaces
  • tmux 3.2a : present

Source#

Defined in
options-table.c:1357
C source reference
options_table
CLI Manual
Original manual entry

Used by#

Library documentation that names this option.

Rust
options.generated.PANE_BORDER_LINES
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tmux.GlobalWindowScope.SetPaneBorderLines, tmux.PaneBorderLines, tmux.Window.SetPaneBorderLines, tmux.WindowOptionValues.PaneBorderLines
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