editing active gcode list

You are confusing things. The suggestion was:

SUBROUTINE_PATH=/home/user/Documents/XYZA:~/linuxcnc/nc_files/subroutines

The colon (not semicolon) can be used to list more than one path linuxcnc should look for subroutines. In the above example it would look in two places
/home/user/Documents/XYZA
and
~/linuxcnc/nc_files/subroutines


You have this in your ini:

SUBROUTINE_PATH=~:/linuxcnc/nc_files/subroutines

Which means it looks in the directories:
/home/{your username}
and
/linuxcnc/nc_files/subroutines

 

1. should I have the subroutines set up at both of those locations?
2. do the actual sub files have to be mentioned, or just up to the file that they are in?

 

it works!!!
the file names that are listed in the subroutine file need to have .ngc in the name
thanks for all your help. 
the frogwire guy I was talking about before?
he sent me his MAIN SUB file
If anybody is interested in looking at it
If I ever have 2.9 or later for the m98 code so I can use the looping function