Re: Creating a coding system

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

David Kastrup writes:

 > Since Emacs can use make-serial-process for opening a raw Midi port, the
 > idea was to bypass the additional executable and create an application
 > useful for directly interfacing with Midi keyboards so that one can at
 > least key in pitches faster than by using a computer keyboard.

This is a great application, one that shows the power of Emacs in a
multidimensional way.  Hat's off to you once again, David!

 > The second iteration would then try working with durations.  Either
 > by putting time stamps on the events as they trundle in,

This might need to be done at a lower level than coding systems, in
the event processing code itself.  But I imagine it's quite feasible.