I'd like to be able to jog during a toolchange before touchoff starts, but I'd 
rather not solve the general 'jog during pause' problem outlined here: 
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?WhyManualWhilePausedIsHard . And I 
dont want to got the 'abort program - restart from line' route either.

I think a new code (Mxx) would be useful which addresses a part of the problem 
in a safe way, namely "jogging under program control", which would work as 
follows:

- a (say) halui.jog-mode pin is raised
- the halui.jog * inputs are enabled, jogging is possible
- when a,say, halui.jog-complete pin is raised, the code terminates 

This would work in any mode (auto, manual, mdi) and would be a queuebuster like 
toolchange, HAL pin read, and probe - readahead would stop, interp is synched 
at end of jog, readahead continues

note this has much narrower applications than jog-during-pause, but it looks 
humanly doable (i.e. for me)

Is it worth doing such a restricted jog mode? It would solve my problem but I'd 
be interested to here what other folks think about it

-Michael


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