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Contains various wizards for the Emacspeak desktop.
Add annotation to the annotation working buffer. Prompt for annotation buffer if not already set. Interactive prefix arg ‘reset’ prompts for the annotation buffer even if one is already set. Annotation is entered in a temporary buffer and the annotation is inserted into the working buffer when complete. (fn &optional RESET)
Copy contents of the region to the emacspeak clipboard. Previous contents of the clipboard will be overwritten. The Emacspeak clipboard is a convenient way of sharing information between independent Emacspeak sessions running on the same or different machines. Do not use this for sharing information within an Emacs session –Emacs’ register commands are far more efficient and light-weight. Optional interactive prefix arg results in Emacspeak prompting for the clipboard file to use. Argument START and END specifies region. Optional argument PROMPT specifies whether we prompt for the name of a clipboard file. (fn START END &optional PROMPT)
Yank contents of the Emacspeak clipboard at point. The Emacspeak clipboard is a convenient way of sharing information between independent Emacspeak sessions running on the same or different machines. Do not use this for sharing information within an Emacs session –Emacs’ register commands are far more efficient and light-weight. Optional interactive prefix arg pastes from the emacspeak table clipboard instead. (fn &optional PASTE-TABLE)
Copy file visited in current buffer to new location. Prompts for the new location and preserves modification time when copying. If location is a directory, the file is copied to that directory under its current name ; if location names a file in an existing directory, the specified name is used. Asks for confirmation if the copy will result in an existing file being overwritten.
Grab URL using Curl, and preview it with a browser . (fn URL)
Customize Emacspeak.
For use in an emergency. Will start TTS engine specified by emacspeak-emergency-tts-server.
Switch to labelled frame. With optional PREFIX argument, label current frame. (fn &optional PREFIX)
Kill current buffer without asking for confirmation.
Helps you learn the keys. You can press keys and hear what they do. To leave, press C-g.
Link (hard link) file visited in current buffer to new location. Prompts for the new location and preserves modification time when linking. If location is a directory, the file is copied to that directory under its current name ; if location names a file in an existing directory, the specified name is used. Signals an error if target already exists.
Move to next buffer. With optional interactive prefix arg ‘frame’, move to next frame instead. (fn &optional FRAME)
Move to previous buffer. With optional interactive prefix arg ‘frame’, move to previous frame instead. (fn &optional FRAME)
Select this buffer as displayed in a ‘next’ frame. See documentation for command ‘emacspeak-select-this-buffer-other-window-display’ for the meaning of ‘next’.
Switch to this buffer as displayed in a different frame. Emacs allows you to display the same buffer in multiple windows or frames. These different windows can display different portions of the buffer. This is equivalent to leaving a book open at multiple places at once. This command allows you to move to the places where you have left the book open. The number used to invoke this command specifies which of the displays you wish to select. Typically you will have two or at most three such displays open. The current display is 0, the next is 1, and so on. Optional argument ARG specifies the display to select. (fn &optional ARG)
Select this buffer as displayed in a ‘previous’ window. See documentation for command ‘emacspeak-select-this-buffer-other-window-display’ for the meaning of ‘previous’.
Show value of PROPERTY at point. If optional arg property is not supplied, read it interactively. Provides completion based on properties at point. If no property is set, show a message and exit. (fn &optional PROPERTY)
Show value of property personality (and possibly face) at point.
Move backward across blank lines. The line under point is then spoken. Signals beginning of buffer.
Move forward across blank lines. The line under point is then spoken. Signals end of buffer.
Pop up messages buffer. If it is already selected then hide it and try to restore previous window configuration.
Lookup and display a phone number. With prefix arg, opens the phone book for editing. (fn &optional EDIT)
Speak this buffer as displayed in a ‘previous’ window. See documentation for command ‘emacspeak-speak-this-buffer-other-window-display’ for the meaning of ‘next’.
Speak this buffer as displayed in a different frame. Emacs allows you to display the same buffer in multiple windows or frames. These different windows can display different portions of the buffer. This is equivalent to leaving a book open at places at once. This command allows you to listen to the places where you have left the book open. The number used to invoke this command specifies which of the displays you wish to speak. Typically you will have two or at most three such displays open. The current display is 0, the next is 1, and so on. Optional argument ARG specifies the display to speak. (fn &optional ARG)
Speak this buffer as displayed in a ‘previous’ window. See documentation for command ‘emacspeak-speak-this-buffer-other-window-display’ for the meaning of ‘previous’.
Restart specified ssh tts server.
Link (symbolic link) file visited in current buffer to new location. Prompts for the new location and preserves modification time when linking. If location is a directory, the file is copied to that directory under its current name ; if location names a file in an existing directory, the specified name is used. Signals an error if target already exists.
Display emacspeak News for a given version.
Browse Emacspeak productivity tips.
Add autoload cookies to file f. Default is to add autoload cookies to current file. (fn &optional F)
Retrieve stock quote data from Alpha Vantage. Prompts for ‘ticker’ — a stock symbol. Optional interactive prefix arg ‘custom’ provides access to the various functions provided by alpha-vantage. (fn TICKER &optional CUSTOM)
Insert Braille string at point. (fn S)
byte compile current buffer
Cleans up duplicates in shell path env variable.
Echo foreground/background color at point.
Meaningfully speak difference between background and foreground color at point. With interactive prefix arg, set foreground and background color first. (fn &optional SET)
Interactively manipulate a simple color wheel and display the name and shade of the resulting color. This makes for a fun color exploration tool with verbal descriptions of the colors from package name-this-color. Prompts for a color from which to start exploration. Keyboard Commands During Interaction: Up/Down: Increase/Decrement along current axis using specified step-size. =: Set value on current axis to number read from minibuffer. Left/Right: Switch color axis along which to move. b/f: Quit wheel after setting background/foreground color to current value. n: Read color name from minibuffer. c: Complement current color. s: Set stepsize to number read from minibuffer. q: Quit color wheel, after copying current hex value to kill-ring. (fn START)
Display list of colors and setup a callback to activate color under point as either the foreground or background color.
Move to the end of current word and add a comma.
Count slides starting from point. (fn START END)
Customize saved options matching ‘pattern’. This command enables updating custom settings for a specific package or group of packages. (fn PATTERN)
Cycles to next buffer having same mode.
Cycles to previous buffer having same mode.
Create a virtual manpage in Emacs from the Perl Online Documentation. (fn FILENAME)
Called to set up preview of an DVI file. Assumes we are in a buffer visiting a .DVI file. Previews those contents as text and nukes the buffer visiting the DVI file.
Major mode for browsing DVI files. DVI files are converted to text and previewed using text mode. This mode runs the hook ‘emacspeak-wizards-dvi-mode-hook’, as the final or penultimate step during initialization. key binding — ——-
move to end of word (fn ARG)
Return list of commands whose names match pattern. (fn PATTERN)
Enumerate faces matching pattern. (fn PATTERN)
utility function to enumerate old, obsolete maps that we have still mapped to voices.
Enumerate unadvised commands matching pattern. Optional interactive prefix arg ‘bound-only’ filters out commands that dont have an active key-binding. (fn PATTERN &optional BOUND-ONLY)
Enumerate unmapped faces matching pattern. (fn &optional PATTERN)
Speak line using espeak polyglot wizard.
Speak region using ESpeak polyglot wizard. (fn START END)
Speak string in lang via ESpeak. Lang is obtained from property ‘lang’ on string, or via an interactive prompt. (fn STRING)
Display list of open EWW buffers.
Update exec-path from shell path.
Read key-sequence, then execute its command on a new thread. (fn KEY)
Prompt for and execute an Emacspeak command. (fn COMMAND)
Google Finance Search (fn TICKER)
Like find-file, but binds default-directory to emacspeak-directory.
Like ‘ido-find-file, but automatically edit the file with root-privileges (using tramp/sudo), if the file is not writable by user. (fn FILE)
Run compile using find and grep. Interactive arguments specify filename pattern and search pattern. (fn GLOB PATTERN)
Find longest line in region. Moves to the longest line when called interactively. (fn START END)
Find longest paragraph in region. Moves to the longest paragraph when called interactively. (fn START END)
Find shortest line in region. Moves to the shortest line when called interactively. (fn START END)
Run find-dired on specified switches after prompting for the directory to where find is to be launched. (fn DIRECTORY)
Emacspeak Finder This mode runs the hook ‘emacspeak-wizards-finder-mode-hook’, as the final or penultimate step during initialization. key binding — ——-
Nuke read-only property on text range. (fn START END)
Search and replace recursively in all files with extension ‘ext’ for ‘word’ and replace it with correction. Use with caution. (fn EXT WORD CORRECTION)
Display frame’s foreground/background color seetting.
Return list consisting of city and region_name. Optional interactive prefix arg reverse-geocodes using Google Maps. (fn &optional REVERSE-GEOCODE)
Generate declare-function call for function ‘f’. Optional interactive prefix arg ext says this comes from an external package. (fn F &optional EXT)
Generate a widget-enabled finder wizard.
Generate a buffer that shows a sample line in all the ACSS settings for the current voice family. (fn STEP)
Extract table specified by depth and count from HTML content at file. Extracted content is sent to STDOUT. (fn FILE DEPTH COUNT)
Extract table specified by depth and count from HTML content at URL. Extracted content is placed as a csv file in task.csv. (fn URL DEPTH COUNT)
Display just the headlines from Google News for fast loading.
Clean up news.google.com for skimming the news.
If you define a file local variable called ‘emacspeak-occur-pattern’ that holds a regular expression that matches lines of interest, you can use this command to conveniently run ‘how-many’ to count matching header lines. With interactive prefix arg, prompts for and remembers the file local pattern. (fn START END &optional PREFIX)
Show financials for specified ticker. Checks cache, then makes API call if needed. Optional interactive prefix arg refreshes cache. (fn SYMBOL &optional REFRESH)
Account metadata.
Show news for specified ticker. Checks cache, then makes API call if needed. Optional interactive prefix arg refreshes cache. (fn SYMBOL &optional REFRESH)
Quick Quote: Just stock price from IEXCloud. (fn SYMBOL)
Show portfolio data from cache. Optional interactive prefix arg forces cache refresh. The quotes view uses emacspeak’s table mode. In addition, the following keys are available : F: Show financials for current stock. N: Show news for current stock. P: Show live price for current stock. (fn &optional REFRESH)
Uses tops/last end-point to show brief portfolio quotes.
Show financials for symbol in current row
Show news for symbol in current row
Show price for symbol in current row
Run Lacheck on current buffer.
load file into emacs
Play midi file using mscore from musescore package. (fn MIDI-FILE)
Display MLB standings as of today. Optional interactive prefix arg shows unprocessed results. (fn &optional RAW)
Speaks a chunk of text bounded by point and a target position. Target position is specified using a navigation command and a count that specifies how many times to execute that command first. Point is left at the target position. Interactively, command is specified by pressing the key that invokes the command. (fn COMMAND COUNT)
Display NBA standings as of today. Optional interactive prefix arg shows unprocessed results. (fn &optional RAW)
Navigate to and speak next ‘bullet’.
Move point to the next interactive defun
Switch to next shell.
Display weather information using NOAA Weather API. Data is retrieved only once, subsequent calls switch to previously displayed results. Kill that buffer or use an interactive prefix arg (C-u) to get new data. Optional second interactive prefix arg (C-u C-u) asks for location address; Default is to display weather for ‘gweb-my-address’. (fn &optional ASK)
If you define a file local variable called ‘emacspeak-occur-pattern’ that holds a regular expression that matches header lines, you can use this command to conveniently run ‘occur’ to find matching header lines. With prefix arg, prompts for and sets value of the file local pattern. (fn &optional PREFIX)
Open pdf file as text. Optional interactive prefix arg ask-pwd prompts for password. (fn FILENAME &optional ASK-PWD)
Provide an input buffer in a specified mode. (fn MODE)
Called to set up preview of an PPT file. Assumes we are in a buffer visiting a .ppt file. Previews those contents as HTML and nukes the buffer visiting the ppt file.
Major mode for browsing PPT slides. PPT files are converted to HTML and previewed using a browser. In addition to any hooks its parent mode ‘text-mode’ might have run, this mode runs the hook ‘emacspeak-wizards-ppt-mode-hook’, as the final or penultimate step during initialization. key binding — ——-
Navigate to and speak previous ‘bullet’.
Switch to previous shell.
Top-level dispatch for looking up Stock Market information. Key : Action f : Financials m : Account metadata n : News p : Price q : Quotes t : tops/last (fn &optional REFRESH)
Run rpm -qi on current dired entry.
Switch to *scratch* buffer, creating it if necessary.
Interactively prompt for foreground and background colors.
Run Emacs built-in ‘shell’ command when not in a shell buffer, or when called with a prefix argument. When called from a shell buffer, switches to ‘next’ shell buffer. When called from outside a shell buffer, find the most ‘appropriate shell’ and switch to it. Once switched, set default directory in that target shell to the directory of the source buffer. (fn &optional PREFIX)
Switch to shell buffer by key. This provides a predictable means for switching to a specific shell buffer. When invoked from a non-shell-mode buffer that is a dired-buffer or is visiting a file, invokes ‘cd ’ in the shell to change to the value of ‘default-directory’ — if called with a prefix-arg. When already in a shell buffer, interactive prefix arg ‘prefix’ causes this shell to be re-keyed if appropriate — see M-x emacspeak-wizards-shell-re-key for an explanation of how re-keying works. (fn &optional PREFIX)
Prompts for and runs shell command on current file. (fn COMMAND)
Set current directory to this shell’s initial directory if one was defined.
Define current directory as this shell’s project directory.
Switch to the shell buffer and cd to the directory of the current buffer.
Display commentary. Default is to display commentary from current buffer. (fn &optional FILE)
Display a buffer with sample text in the defined voices.
Display value of specified environment variable. (fn V)
Convenience command to pretty-print and view Lisp evaluation results. (fn FORM)
Show salient properties of specified face. (fn FACE)
Convenience command to view state of memory used in this session so far.
Make ISO date-time speech friendly. (fn ISO)
Searches recursively in all files with extension ‘ext’ for ‘word’ and displays hits in a compilation buffer. (fn EXT WORD)
Squeeze multiple blank lines in current buffer. (fn START END)
Display sunrise/sunset for specified address. (fn ADDRESS &optional ARG)
Swap foreground and background.
Switch to an ansi-term buffer or create one. With prefix arg, always creates a new terminal. Otherwise cycles through existing terminals, creating the first term if needed. (fn CREATE)
Launch terminal and rename buffer appropriately. (fn PROGRAM)
Tie the next n words. (fn N)
insert thanks , –Raman at the end of mail message
Toggle pronunciation of mm-dd-yyyy dates.
Toggle pronunciation of yyyymmdd dates.
Open specified tramp location. Location is specified by name. (fn NAME)
Browse Tune-In Radio. Optional interactive prefix arg ‘category’ prompts for a category. (fn &optional CATEGORY)
Search Tune-In Radio.
UnEscape URI (fn URI)
Run units in a comint sub-process.
Accelerator for VC viewer.
Major mode for interactively viewing virtual console contents. key binding — ——- C-l emacspeak-wizards-vc-viewer-refresh In addition to any hooks its parent mode ‘special-mode’ might have run, this mode runs the hook ‘emacspeak-wizards-vc-view-mode-hook’, as the final or penultimate step during initialization.
View contents of specified virtual console. (fn CONSOLE)
Refresh view of VC we’re viewing.
Buffer menu filtered by m-player mode.
Display list of buffers filtered by specified mode. (fn MODE)
Buffer menu filtered by mode of current-buffer.
Read a personality and apply it to the current line. (fn PERSONALITY)
Delete stale Web connections.
Called to set up preview of an XL file. Assumes we are in a buffer visiting a .xls file. Previews those contents as HTML and nukes the buffer visiting the xls file.
Major mode for browsing XL spreadsheets. XL Sheets are converted to HTML and previewed using a browser. In addition to any hooks its parent mode ‘text-mode’ might have run, this mode runs the hook ‘emacspeak-wizards-xl-mode-hook’, as the final or penultimate step during initialization. key binding — ——-
Lookup quotes for specified stock symbols. Symbols are separated by whitespace. (fn SYMBOLS)
Display quotes using YQL API. Symbols are taken from ‘emacspeak-wizards-personal-portfolio’.
Download video at point. (fn ID)
Play video. Argument ‘id’ is the video-id. Play current video in ytel when called interactively. Optional interactive prefix arg ‘best’ picks best audio format. (fn ID &optional BEST)
File used to save Emacspeak clipboard. The emacspeak clipboard provides a convenient mechanism for exchanging information between different Emacs sessions.
Cookie store used by Curl.
TTS server to use in an emergency. Set this to a TTS server that is known to work at all times. If you are debugging another speech server and that server gets wedged for some reason, you can use command emacspeak-emergency-tts-restart to get speech back using the reliable TTS server. It’s useful to bind the above command to a convenient key.
Web API key for IEX Finance access. See IEX Login Console at https://iexcloud.io/cloud-login/ for how to get an API key.
File holding telephone directory. This is just a text file, and we use grep to search it.
Command used to look up names in the telephone directory.
SSH TTS server to use by default.
API Key used to retrieve stock data from alpha-vantage. Visit https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key to get your key.
Program for converting dvi to txt. Set this to nil if you do not want to use the DVI wizard.
Find switches whose args need quoting.
Widget to get find switch.
Template used to audio-format rows.
options to Command for running pdftotext.
Command for running pdftotext.
Set this to the stock tickers you want to check. Default is GAFA. Tickers are separated by white-space and are automatically sorted in lexical order with duplicates removed when saving.
Program for converting PPT to HTML. Set this to nil if you do not want to use the PPTHTML wizard.
List of shell-name/initial-directory pairs.
Default file extension used when spotting words.
Tramp locations used by Emacspeak tramp wizard. Locations added here via custom can be opened using command emacspeak-wizards-tramp-open-location bound to M-x emacspeak-wizards-tramp-open-location.
Command line for dumping out virtual console. Make sure you have access to /dev/vcs* by adding yourself to the appropriate group. On Ubuntu and Debian this is group ‘tty’.
Program for converting XL to HTML. Set this to nil if you do not want to use the XLHTML wizard.
Template used to audio-format rows.
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