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3.5 Reading And Navigating ¶

Ordinary Emacs movement speaks the text crossed by point: moving by a character, word, line, or paragraph presents the corresponding unit. The commands below let you inspect useful units without first moving. They use the default C-e prefix.

This is deliberately a starter set, not a second complete key reference. If a binding below differs in your session, use C-h k on that key and check your customizations. The complete generated defaults are in the Emacsvox Keymaps in Emacsvox Reference Manual.

C-e c ¶

emacsvox-speak-char speaks the character at point.

C-e w ¶

emacsvox-speak-word speaks the current word. Repeating it at the same position spells the word.

C-e l ¶

emacsvox-speak-line speaks the current line.

C-e [ ¶

emacsvox-speak-paragraph speaks the current paragraph.

C-e ] ¶

emacsvox-speak-page speaks the current page.

C-e r ¶

emacsvox-speak-region speaks the active region between point and mark.

C-e i ¶

emacsvox-speak-rest-of-buffer speaks from point to the end of the buffer.

C-e b ¶

emacsvox-speak-buffer speaks the entire current buffer.

C-e s ¶

tts-stop stops current speech.

C-e C-d ¶

emacsvox-toggle-show-point toggles the aural indication of point within spoken text.

Many speaking commands accept a prefix argument to limit speech to the text before or after point. Use C-h k on a command before relying on those variants, because their exact argument behavior is documented with the command.