A short, keyboard-accessible introduction. The startup preference belongs to the Emacs profile, independently of the application installation.
Getting started. TAB and Shift-TAB choose actions; RET activates; q returns. In addition to any hooks its parent mode ‘special-mode’ might have run, this mode runs the hook ‘emacsvox-welcome-mode-hook’, as the final or penultimate step during initialization. Key Binding ——————————————————————————- TAB emacsvox-welcome-next RET push-button SPC push-button - negative-argument 0 .. 9 digit-argument < beginning-of-buffer > end-of-buffer ? describe-mode g revert-buffer h describe-mode n emacsvox-welcome-next p emacsvox-welcome-previous q quit-window DEL scroll-down-command S-SPC scroll-down-command <backtab> emacsvox-welcome-previous
Move to and speak the next action, or the previous with BACKWARD. (fn &optional BACKWARD)
Open the speech, tones, earcons and notification output settings.
Move to and speak the previous action.
Play a short sample using the current speech settings.
Whether to offer the welcome screen at startup. The screen’s toggle remembers an explicit choice in this Emacs profile. A saved choice takes precedence over this default. Explicitly opened files, automated speech checks, and sessions already in use keep their current buffer.
Default Value:
t