Re: temp_echo_area_glyphs and Emacspeak

[Stefan Monnier]

> One of the outstanding problems for Emacspeak
> is that the [sole completion] and alike messages
> don't get spoken at all.
> 
> I now found out why: temp_echo_area_glyphs is called
> for all those messages, and there is no obvious
> way to get this information.
> 
> Would it be a problem to introduce a new hook
> which gets called with the STRING everytime temp_echo_area_glyphs is
> called from C?
> 
> How should such a hook be named?  echo-area-hook?
> 
> Or is there a better way to get this kind
> of information programmatically from Lisp?

Use partial-completion-mode (or whichever other package that completiely
redefines the completion functions in elisp).
There, you'll find an elisp implementation of temp_echo_area_glyphs
that you can advise just fine.


        Stefan