Re: Request: Use message instead of message_with_string for user visible output?

[Dmitri Paduchikh]

T.V. Raman wrote:

> Some useful hooks to add:

[...]

> 2. A pre-insert hook on self-insert-command -- right now I cant tell
> from the emacspeak end when self-insert-command bales out because
> the current context is read-only.

Just for the record, I have proposed on the Emacspeak list to use
command-error-function for speaking read-only errors. It seems to work
well with self-insert-command and other such cases.

For speaking undefined keys there is a solution using a little trickery
from ring-bell-function:

(defun my-speak-echo-area ()
  (let ((msg (current-message)))
    (if (> (length msg) 0)
        (dtk-speak msg))))

(setq ring-bell-function
      (lambda ()
        (dtk-stop)
        (emacspeak-auditory-icon 'warn-user)
        (if (eq this-command nil)
            (run-with-idle-timer 0 nil 'my-speak-echo-area))))

Of course, it would be nice if some uniform solution existed.

-- 
With best regards
Dmitri Paduchikh