Fwd: interesting situation: emacspeak reads out company completions but nothing displayed

[Krishnakant]

This is a mesage I posted to emacspeak mailing list.

The thing is that emacspeak is the audio interface to Emacs for Blind users.

But now I figured out that it is rather an Emacs related issue so 
posting it here.

Note that I am able to use emacs with the said audio package perfectly 
well, just that this problem hinders my sighted friends to sit and work 
with me.

Kindly advice.

Happy hacking.

Krishnakant.




-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	interesting situation: emacspeak reads out company completions 
but nothing displayed
Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:08:49 +0530
From:   Krishnakant <krmane@openmailbox.org>
To:     emacspeak <emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu>



Dear all,

I don't know if this is the default.

But now I am not able to sit with my sighted team maits and work together.

My wife just pointed out that although emacspeak reads out company
completions in python-mode she can't see any such completions visually.


here is my part of init.el in context.

i have removed all the rest of settings to avoide clutter.

(defconst *emacspeak-src-dir* (expand-file-name "~/lab/git/emacspeak")
  "Where emacs will find the emacspeak distro")

(defconst *emacspeak-server* "espeak"
  "The speech server to use")

;; Do the basic minimal stuff necessary to setup emacspeak

(when (and (not noninteractive)
           (not (featurep 'emacspeak)))
     (add-to-list 'load-path *emacspeak-src-dir*)
     (setenv "EMACSPEAK_DIR" *emacspeak-src-dir*)
     (setenv "DTK_PROGRAM" *emacspeak-server*)
     (setq dtk-program *emacspeak-server*)
     (add-hook 'emacspeak-startup-hook
               (lambda ()
                 (dtk-set-rate tts-default-speech-rate 1)
                 (dtk-interp-sync)))
     (load-file (concat *emacspeak-src-dir* "/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")))

;; Add the EmacsSpeak info documentation to the info search path. From
;; within Info, you can hit ~g~ and then enter ~(emacspeak)~ at the
;; prompt to open the Emacspeak info documentation

(require 'info)
(add-to-list 'Info-additional-directory-list
             (expand-file-name "info"  *emacspeak-src-dir*))


(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(company-idle-delay 1)
 '(company-minimum-prefix-length 5)
 '(eldoc-idle-delay 2.5)
 '(elpy-rpc-ignored-buffer-size 302400)
 '(elpy-syntax-check-command "")
 '(inhibit-startup-screen t)
 '(package-selected-packages
   (quote
    (python-mode ac-html-bootstrap ac-html-csswatcher js2-mode js3-mode
json-mode markdown-mode flex-isearch projectile company-web company-tern
web-mode magit elpy company-jedi)))
 '(python-check-command "")
 '(web-mode-auto-close-style 1)
 '(web-mode-enable-auto-expanding t))
(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )


(add-hook 'window-setup-hook 'toggle-frame-fullscreen t)


So does any one find some thing that I can change to get the visual
completions back?

I most often work with my sighted team so this is very necessary for me.

Happy hacking.


Krishnakant.