Pane tools¶

Read visible or scrollback text from a pane.

Start a cursor, then read only new pane output.

Search text across many panes in one call.

Capture content plus cursor, mode, and scroll state in one call.

Read pane metadata without content.

Find the pane at a given corner of a window.

Evaluate a tmux format string against a target.

Send keystrokes or commands to a pane.

Paste multi-line text via tmux buffer.

Fork pane output to a file or program.

Switch focus to a pane.

Swap two panes’ positions.

Set a pane’s human-readable title.

Clear a pane’s scrollback.

Resize a pane.

Enter tmux copy mode for scrollback navigation.

Exit copy mode.

Block until a pattern appears in a pane.

Block until pane content changes.

Block until a tmux wait-for channel is signalled.

Signal a waiting channel.

Restart a pane’s process in place, preserving pane_id.

Terminate a pane. Destructive.