Stepping a program - bug or feature?

Call it an idiosyncrasy of primarily programmers building linuxcnc's core, a long time ago.

as a programmer you wish to minimize the messages sent from the interpreter to the motion engine.
Feed for instance, only needs to be sent when there is a motion mode sent.

This is efficient, but not what operators are expecting.
IMHO it's one of linuxcnc's short comings.
Block delete is another one - you can't change it after the program in running.

It could be fixed I'm sure but would take some effort and more importantly, someone who knows the deepest depths of linuxcnc code.

Chris

cmorley wrote:

Call it an idiosyncrasy of primarily programmers building linuxcnc's core, a long time ago.

It could be fixed I'm sure but would take some effort and more importantly, someone who knows the deepest depths of linuxcnc code.

Chris
 

Similar to software programmers being alergic to GOTO statements, despite them being extremely useful in cnc programming?

I've been using LCNC for about a week now so I think I'm a little shy of the 'deepest depths' criteria.

Maybe by next month.