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