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Emacspeak News --History Of User-Visible Changes

Author: T. V. Raman <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>


* Emacspeak 45 -- Emacspeak 45 User Visible Changes
** Updated Slime Support 

Module ~emacspeak-slime~ has been updated to speech-enable more of
the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode (slime).

** GPG Integration In Emacs:

Speech-enables package ~epa~ for GPG integration. Also supports the
use of module ~pinentry~ with ~gpg-agent~
with newer versions of ~gpg-agent~.

** Emacs Screen  Session Manager:

Module ~emacspeak-elscreen~ speech-enables package ~elscreen~.


** Librivox Client:

Added completion support for browsing Librivox by genre. All searches
now accept an interactive prefix arg for getting next set of results.

** Switching Among Related Buffers:
Module ~emacspeak-related~ speech-enables package  ~related~ from Melpa.

** RST Text Mode:

Module ~emacspeak-rst~ speech-enables ~rst~ mode.


** Mode-Line Info:

Emacspeak's spoken mode-line includes version-control state for files
under VC.

** Invoke Emacspeak M-Player From Outside Emacs

Simple shell-script etc/emplay  can hand off a media URL to Emacspeak
from outside Emacs.

** Updated sound Themes 

Sound themes have been updated  and tweaked.

** Visual Line Mode

Emacspeak now   supports   ~visual_line-mode~

** Entertain: Threes
Speech-enables the simple puzzle game ~threes~.


** Ciel: Clear Inside, Copy Inside 

Package ~ciel~ provides an implementation of VIM's clear/copy
inside. Module ~emacspeak-ciel~ speech-enables package ~ciel~.

** Google News:
Added URL Templates for Google Category News and Google Regional News.


** Speech-Enable Package Jade
Package ~jade~ implements a Javacript IDE that works alongside
packages like ~js2-mode~.
Module emacspeak-jade.el speech-enables package Jade for interactively
debugging Webapps in  browsers like Chrome.


** Speech-Enable Tide:

Package ~tide~ implements a Typescript IDE in Emacs. Module
~emacspeak-tide~ speech-enables package ~tide~.

** SoX And Binaural Beats:
Module ~sox-gen~ now provides the ability to generate a variety of
binaural tones and beats --- this is designed for use with headphones for
brainwave entrainment.


** Speech-Enabled Elisp-Refs

Module ~emacspeak-elisp-refs~ speech-enables package ~elisp-refs~ ---
a powerful package for jumping to callers of functions and macros in
Emacs Lisp.

** Bootstrap Script 

The GitHub repo now contains  [[https://gist.github.com/08046e9befd9755dc05282ae5c8d32f5][etc/bootstrap.sh]] ---
a  script for  bootstrapping into Emacspeak on a well-configured Linux system.

