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2.4.6 Reading State Changes

speechd-el can read information about current Emacs state, like current buffer name, major and minor modes or other buffer attributes, see See Informatory Commands. Changes in the Emacs state information can be reported automatically, according to the user configuration:

speechd-speak-state-changes ¶

List of identifiers of the Emacs state changes to be automatically reported. The following symbols are recognized as state change identifiers:

buffer-name

buffer-identification

(only in Emacs 22 or higher)

buffer-modified

buffer-read-only

frame-name

frame-identification

(only in Emacs 22 or higher)

header-line

(only in Emacs 22 or higher)

major-mode

minor-modes

buffer-file-coding

terminal-coding

input-method

process

speechd-speak-display-modes ¶

List of minor modes to be read by their display string rather than name. To use the display form of a mode identification may be useful in cases when the display form is more concise than the mode name or when the display form changes without actual change of the mode.