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2.4.7 Signalling

Certain situations may be signalled by icons. Icon is typically a short sound or a special indication on a Braille display1 signalling some event (such as displaying a message, entering prompt, or reaching an empty line). The following variable enables or disables the predefined indications. To learn how to define your own indications, See Defining Your Own Command Feedbacks.

speechd-speak-signal-events

List of symbols, containing names of events to signal with an icon. The following event names are supported:

start

Start or restart of speechd-el.

empty

Empty text in various situations.

beginning-of-line

Reaching beginning of line after the forward-char and backward-char commands.

end-of-line

Reaching end of line after the forward-char and backward-char commands.

minibuffer

Entering minibuffer.

message

Messages in echo area follow.


Footnotes

(1)

Icons are not yet implemented this way in the Braille library, plain texts are displayed instead.