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11.73 emacspeak-wizards

Commentary: Contains various wizards for the Emacspeak desktop.

Automatically generated documentation for commands defined in module emacspeak-wizards.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-annotate-add-annotation nil

Not bound to any key.

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-clipboard-copy nil

control e control c

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-clipboard-paste nil

control e control y

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-copy-current-file nil

control e meta c

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-curl nil

Not bound to any key.

Grab URL using Curl, and preview it with a browser .

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-customize nil

control e cap C

Customize Emacspeak.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-customize-personal-settings nil

Not bound to any key.

Create a customization buffer for browsing and updating personal customizations.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-cvs-berlios-get-project-snapshot nil

Not bound to any key.

Grab CVS snapshot of specified project from berlios.de. Ask for module name if prefix argument is given

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-cvs-get-anonymous nil

Not bound to any key.

Get latest cvs snapshot of emacspeak.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-cvs-gnu-get-project-snapshot nil

Not bound to any key.

Grab CVS snapshot of specified project from gnu. Ask for module name if prefix argument is given

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-cvs-sf-get-project-snapshot nil

Not bound to any key.

Grab CVS snapshot of specified project from sf. Ask for module name if prefix argument is given

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-emergency-tts-restart nil

control e <insert>

For use in an emergency. Will start TTS engine specified by emacspeak-emergency-tts-server.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-frame-label-or-switch-to-labelled-frame nil

control e meta f

Switch to labelled frame. With optional PREFIX argument, label current frame.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-frame-read-frame-label nil

Not bound to any key.

Read a frame label with completion.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-generate-documentation nil

Not bound to any key.

Generate docs for all emacspeak commands. Prompts for FILENAME in which to save the documentation. Warning! Contents of file filename will be overwritten.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-generate-texinfo-command-documentation nil

Not bound to any key.

Generate texinfo documentation for all emacspeak commands into file commands.texi. Warning! Contents of file commands.texi will be overwritten.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-generate-texinfo-option-documentation nil

Not bound to any key.

Generate texinfo documentation for all emacspeak options into file filename. Warning! Contents of file filename will be overwritten.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-kill-buffer-quietly nil

Not bound to any key.

Kill current buffer without asking for confirmation.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-learn-emacs-mode nil

control e <f1> control h control l <f1> control l <help> control l

Helps you learn the keys. You can press keys and hear what they do. To leave, press C-g.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-link-current-file nil

control e meta l

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-links nil

Not bound to any key.

Launch links on specified URL in a new terminal.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-lynx nil

Not bound to any key.

Launch lynx on specified URL in a new terminal.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-next-frame-or-buffer nil

<control right>

Move to next buffer. With optional interactive prefix arg `frame', move to next frame instead.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-previous-frame-or-buffer nil

<control left>

Move to previous buffer. With optional interactive prefix arg `frame', move to previous frame instead.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-root nil

control e control r

Start a root shell or switch to one that already exists. Optional interactive prefix arg `cd' executes cd default-directory after switching.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-select-this-buffer-next-display nil

control e <control right>

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'.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-select-this-buffer-other-window-display nil

Not bound to any key.

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 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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-select-this-buffer-previous-display nil

control e <control left>

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'.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-show-personality-at-point nil

control e meta v

Show value of property personality (and possibly face) at point.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-show-property-at-point nil

Not bound to any key.

Show value of PROPERTY at point. If optional arg property is not supplied, read it interactively. Provides completion based on properties that are of interest. If no property is set, show a message and exit.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-skip-blank-lines-backward nil

<shift up>

Move backward across blank lines. The line under point is then spoken. Signals beginning of buffer.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-skip-blank-lines-forward nil

<shift down>

Move forward across blank lines. The line under point is then spoken. Signals end of buffer.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-speak-browse-linux-howto nil

control e cap H

Browse a Linux Howto file. We cleanup underlining, and set up outline mode correctly.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-speak-popup-messages nil

control h cap M <f1> cap M <help> cap M

Pop up messages buffer. If it is already selected then hide it and try to restore previous window configuration.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-speak-run-shell-command nil

control e !

Invoke shell COMMAND and display its output as a table. The results are placed in a buffer in Emacspeak's table browsing mode. Optional interactive prefix arg as-root runs the command as root. Use this for running shell commands that produce tabulated output. This command should be used for shell commands that produce tabulated output that works with Emacspeak's table recognizer. Verify this first by running the command in a shell and executing command `emacspeak-table-display-table-in-region' normally bound to C-e TAB.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-speak-telephone-directory nil

Not bound to any key.

Lookup and display a phone number. With prefix arg, opens the phone book for editting.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-speak-this-buffer-next-display nil

control e <right>

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'.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-speak-this-buffer-other-window-display nil

control e /

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-speak-this-buffer-previous-display nil

control e <left>

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'.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-ssh-tts-restart nil

control e <deletechar> control e <delete>

Restart specified ssh tts server.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-sudo nil

Not bound to any key.

SUDo command –run command as super user.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-sudo-edit nil

Not bound to any key.

Not Documented

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-switch-to-previous-buffer nil

Not bound to any key.

Switch to most recently used interesting buffer. Obsoleted by `previous-buffer' in Emacs 22

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-symlink-current-file nil

control e meta s

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-view-emacspeak-doc nil

Not bound to any key.

Display a summary of all Emacspeak commands.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-view-emacspeak-faq nil

control e cap F

Browse the Emacspeak FAQ.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-view-emacspeak-news nil

control e cap N

Display info on recent change to Emacspeak.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-view-emacspeak-tips nil

control e cap T

Browse Emacspeak productivity tips.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-add-autoload-cookies nil

Not bound to any key.

Add autoload cookies to file f. Default is to add autoload cookies to current file.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-braille nil

Not bound to any key.

Insert Braille string at point.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-byte-compile-current-buffer nil

Not bound to any key.

byte compile current buffer

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-comma-at-end-of-word nil

Not bound to any key.

Move to the end of current word and add a comma.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-count-slides-in-region nil

Not bound to any key.

Count slides starting from point.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-display-pod-as-manpage nil

Not bound to any key.

Create a virtual manpage in Emacs from the Perl Online Documentation.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-dvi-display nil

Not bound to any key.

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-dvi-mode nil

Not bound to any key.

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 step during initialization.

key binding — ———

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-edit-file-as-root nil

Not bound to any key.

Edit file as root using sudo vi. See /etc/sudoers for how to set up sudo.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-end-of-word nil

Not bound to any key.

move to end of word

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-enumerate-matching-commands nil

Not bound to any key.

Prompt for a string pattern and return list of commands whose names match pattern.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-enumerate-uncovered-commands nil

Not bound to any key.

Enumerate unadvised commands matching pattern.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-espeak-region nil

Not bound to any key.

Speak region using ESpeak polyglot wizard.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-espeak-string nil

Not bound to any key.

Speak string in lang via ESpeak. Lang is obtained from property `lang' on string, or via an interactive prompt.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-find-emacspeak-source nil

Not bound to any key.

Like find-file, but binds default-directory to emacspeak-directory.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-find-grep nil

Not bound to any key.

Run compile using find and grep. Interactive arguments specify filename pattern and search pattern.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-find-longest-line-in-region nil

Not bound to any key.

Find longest line in region. Moves to the longest line when called interactively.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-find-longest-paragraph-in-region nil

Not bound to any key.

Find longest paragraph in region. Moves to the longest paragraph when called interactively.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-find-shortest-line-in-region nil

Not bound to any key.

Find shortest line in region. Moves to the shortest line when called interactively.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-finder-find nil

Not bound to any key.

Run find-dired on specified switches after prompting for the directory to where find is to be launched.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-finder-mode nil

Not bound to any key.

Emacspeak Finder

This mode runs the hook `emacspeak-wizards-finder-mode-hook', as the final step during initialization.

key binding — ———

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-fix-read-only-text nil

Not bound to any key.

Nuke read-only property on text range.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-fix-typo nil

Not bound to any key.

Search and replace recursively in all files with extension `ext' for `word' and replace it with correction. Use with caution.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-generate-finder nil

Not bound to any key.

Generate a widget-enabled finder wizard.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-generate-voice-sampler nil

Not bound to any key.

Generate a buffer that shows a sample line in all the ACSS settings for the current voice family.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-get-table-content-from-file nil

Not bound to any key.

Extract table specified by depth and count from HTML content at file. Extracted content is sent to STDOUT.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-get-table-content-from-url nil

Not bound to any key.

Extract table specified by depth and count from HTML content at URL. Extracted content is placed as a csv file in task.csv.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-google-1box nil

Not bound to any key.

Invoke Google 1Box search.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-google-hits nil

Not bound to any key.

Filter Google results after performing search to show just the hits.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-google-squared nil

Not bound to any key.

Invoke Google Squared search.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-google-transcode nil

Not bound to any key.

View Web through Google Transcoder.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-how-many-matches nil

Not bound to any key.

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-i810-display-status nil

Not bound to any key.

Show display status on thinkpads using i810switch.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-js nil

Not bound to any key.

Run JS in a comint sub-process.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-lacheck-buffer-file nil

Not bound to any key.

Run Lacheck on current buffer.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-load-current-file nil

Not bound to any key.

load file into emacs

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-move-and-speak nil

Not bound to any key.

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-next-bullet nil

Not bound to any key.

Navigate to and speak next `bullet'.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-next-interactive-defun nil

Not bound to any key.

Move point to the next interactive defun

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-occur-header-lines nil

Not bound to any key.

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-pdf-open nil

Not bound to any key.

Open pdf file as text. Optional interactive prefix arg ask-pwd prompts for password.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-popup-input-buffer nil

Not bound to any key.

Provide an input buffer in a specified mode.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-portfolio-quotes nil

Not bound to any key.

Bring up detailed stock quotes for portfolio specified by emacspeak-wizards-personal-portfolio.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-ppp-toggle nil

Not bound to any key.

Bring up or bring down ppp.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-ppt-display nil

Not bound to any key.

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-ppt-mode nil

Not bound to any key.

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 step during initialization.

key binding — ———

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-previous-bullet nil

Not bound to any key.

Navigate to and speak previous `bullet'.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-refresh-shell-history nil

Not bound to any key.

Refresh shell history from disk. This is for use in conjunction with bash to allow multiple emacs shell buffers to share history information.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-rivo nil

Not bound to any key.

Rivo wizard. Prompts for relevant information and schedules a rivo job using UNIX At scheduling facility. RIVO is implemented by rivo.pl — a Perl script that can be used to launch streaming media and record streaming media for a specified duration.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-rpm-query-in-dired nil

Not bound to any key.

Run rpm -qi on current dired entry.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-shell-toggle nil

control e <f11>

Switch to the shell buffer and cd to the directory of the current buffer.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-show-commentary nil

Not bound to any key.

Display commentary. Default is to display commentary from current buffer.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-show-environment-variable nil

Not bound to any key.

Display value of specified environment variable.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-show-eval-result nil

control e & META ESCAPE :

Convenience command to pretty-print and view Lisp evaluation results.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-show-face nil

Not bound to any key.

Show salient properties of specified face.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-show-memory-used nil

Not bound to any key.

Convenience command to view state of memory used in this session so far.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-speak-iso-datetime nil

Not bound to any key.

Make ISO date-time speech friendly.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-spot-words nil

Not bound to any key.

Searches recursively in all files with extension `ext' for `word' and displays hits in a compilation buffer.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-squeeze-blanks nil

Not bound to any key.

Squeeze multiple blank lines in current buffer.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-sunrise-sunset nil

Not bound to any key.

Display sunrise/sunset for specified address.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-term nil

Not bound to any key.

Like M-x shell for ansi-term. Starts a terminal, or switches to an existing one.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-terminal nil

Not bound to any key.

Launch terminal and rename buffer appropriately.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-tex-tie-current-word nil

Not bound to any key.

Tie the next n words.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-thanks-mail-signature nil

Not bound to any key.

insert thanks , –Raman at the end of mail message

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-toggle-mm-dd-yyyy-date-pronouncer nil

Not bound to any key.

Toggle pronunciation of mm-dd-yyyy dates.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-tpctl-display-status nil

Not bound to any key.

Show display status on thinkpads using tpctl.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-tramp-open-location nil

Not bound to any key.

Open specified tramp location. Location is specified by name.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-unhex-uri nil

Not bound to any key.

UnEscape URI

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-units nil

Not bound to any key.

Run units in a comint sub-process.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-use-w3-or-w3m nil

Not bound to any key.

Alternates between using W3 and W3M for browse-url.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-vc-n nil

Not bound to any key.

Accelerator for VC viewer.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-vc-viewer nil

Not bound to any key.

View contents of specified virtual console.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-vc-viewer-mode nil

Not bound to any key.

Major mode for interactively viewing virtual console contents.

key binding — ———

C-l emacspeak-wizards-vc-viewer-refresh

This mode runs the hook `emacspeak-wizards-vc-viewer-mode-hook', as the final step during initialization.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-vc-viewer-refresh nil

Not bound to any key.

Refresh view of VC we're viewing.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-vi-as-su-file nil

Not bound to any key.

Launch sudo vi on specified file in a terminal.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-view-url nil

Not bound to any key.

Open a new buffer containing the contents of URL.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-voice-sampler nil

Not bound to any key.

Read a personality and apply it to the current line.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-vpn-toggle nil

Not bound to any key.

Bring up or bring down vpn.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-xl-display nil

Not bound to any key.

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.

— Interactive Command: emacspeak-wizards-xl-mode nil

Not bound to any key.

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 step during initialization.

key binding — ———