# field_types.FormatScope

- **Module:** field_types
- **Package:** libtmux
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **Kind:** typealias
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-ts/blob/3fe1ca654b81b8cbf4a13b777a001a3298c87a6f/packages/libtmux/src/field_types.ts#L5
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/ts/latest/reference/field_types-formatscope/

Which kind of object a format field describes.

A field belongs to exactly one scope, and asking a pane for a session's
field is what `#{}` silently answers as empty rather than as an error.