Many ways to skin a cat - and all of them wrong, or right, depends on your point of view.

I do have wired pendants for the mill, but am trying to get away from things that I trip over etc (I am rather clumsy). For my lathe (more relevant to your use case) I do naughty things (most Myford owners are rather over-zealously protective against dicking about with history) with the cabinet. Another flavour of integration with Linux CNC...

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It helps that the gubbins is housed in the cabinet as well.

Apologies for the mess... the lathe is undergoing some satanic ritual at the moment.