Re: Emacspeak doesn't read echo area?

[Lubos Pintes <lubos.pintes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting. I didn't know this really matters. I thought that it could 
speak every message appearing on echo area -- sighted can see it so I 
thought that we could, perhaps optionally, hear it.
Dňa 25. 10. 2013 11:42 Dmitri Paduchikh  wrote / napísal(a):
> There are different mechanisms to display a message in echo area.
> Emacspeak can install advices to basic functions used to display
> messages from Lisp such as `signal' or `message' but sometimes this
> happens at the C level where Emacspeak cannot catch up. It still can
> check the contents of echo area from post-command-hook - a hook executed
> after every command. But then how to decide which messages need to be
> spoken? It's not exactly clear.
>
> In the case of undefined keys Emacs rings the bell and you can customize
> its behavior through ring-bell-function. Like this:
>
> (setq ring-bell-function
>        (lambda ()
> 	(dtk-stop)
> 	(emacspeak-auditory-icon 'warn-user)
> 	(if (memq this-command '(nil undefined))
> 	    (dtk-speak "undefined key"))))
>
> Lubos Pintes wrote:
>
> LP> Hi,
> LP> When for example I press F6 in Emacs while Emacspeak is running, the "<F6>
> LP> is undefined" message appears in echo area. But Emacspeak doesn't read it.
> LP> Why?
> LP> Or this is a misconfiguration on my side/my server?
> LP> I am on Windows.


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