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Program

A program started by Server.spawn , running in a pane of its own.

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Qualified name
Program
Module
program
Package
libtmux
Source
packages/libtmux/src/program.ts
class program.Program

Description#

Drive a full-screen program with Pane.sendKeys and read its screen with Pane.capture .

It owns its pane. Program.kill , or leaving an await using scope, ends the program and removes the pane, unless spawned with keep . Should this process exit or die first, tmux ends the program through its lease, unless spawned with orphanAfterMs: null. A kill ends a stream in progress with LibTmuxError , and a pane removed from outside with ObjectNotFoundError . After kill , output raises ObjectNotFoundError , stream raises LibTmuxError , and wait returns the exit it already saw or raises ObjectNotFoundError .

Requires tmux 3.8 or newer.

Members9#

Common operations7#

  • [Symbol.asyncDispose] method Kill the program when an await using scope ends.
  • kill method End the program and remove its pane, unless kept.
  • output method What the program has printed so far, as its terminal shows it.
  • pane: Pane attribute The pane the program runs in.
  • sessionName: string attribute The session the program runs in: a detached one of its own, removed with it, or with from that pane's session, which loses only the program's window or split. tmux attach -t it to watch the program.
  • stream method Everything the program writes, as UTF-8 text in the order it was written, until it exits and its last write has arrived.
  • wait method Resolve with how the program ended, once it has. The pane stays, for Program.output , until Program.kill or await using. A program that never ran, because argv[0] was not found or is not executable, or startDirectory could not be entered, rejects every wait with ProgramStartError , and its stream ends with it.

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