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6.2 Using Emacs Buffers ¶

While typing in an Emacs buffer, hitting space speaks the recently typed word. I use completion all the time; so Emacspeak will speak the completion just inserted as well as the next possible completion. In Emacs, use M-x load-library RETURN completion RETURN for loading the completion package.

The standard Emacs prompting functions have also been speech-enabled. Emacs prompts with available lists of completions in response to partial input wherever appropriate — all forms of completion provide speech feedback.

In addition, Emacspeak provides a number of commands for reading portions of the current buffer, getting status information, and modifying Emacspeak’s state.

All of the commands are documented in the subsequent sections. They can be classified into types:

• Emacspeak commands for listening to chunks of information. The names of these commands all start with the common prefix emacspeak-speak-. All Emacspeak commands are bound to the keymap emacspeak-keymap and are accessed with the key C-e². Thus, the Emacspeak command emacspeak-speak-line is bound to l in keymap emacspeak-keymap and can be accessed with the keystroke C-e l. If for some reason you wish to use some key other than C-e as the common keyboard prefix for all Emacspeak commands, set the variable emacspeak-prefix.
• The second category of commands provided by Emacspeak manipulate the state of the speech device. The names of these commands start with the common prefix dtk- and are bound in keymap emacspeak-dtk-submap.

  You can access these commands via the prefix C-e d ³. Thus, the command dtk-set-rate is bound to r in keymap emacspeak-dtk-submap and can be executed by pressing C-e d r.

Emacs has extensive online help; so does emacspeak. Please use it.

This info manual is only to get you started. You can get a summary of Emacspeak’s features by pressing C-h C-e