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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 Advanced Customization.

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.