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