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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Editing embedded symbols
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> In gschem (1.9.1) I add a component from the library and choose ‘embed 
> component’ rather than ‘reference component’.  My expectation is that if 
> I use ‘down symbol’, edit the symbol then use ‘up’ it would update the 
> embedded component in my schematic, however this doesn’t work: it asks 
> me to save the symbol then complains because it is trying to overwrite 
> the original symbol file, to which I have no user write permission.
>
> Is this supposed to work?  Is there a setting that controls it?

As far as I know, this isn't implemented in gschem.

I'd recommend having a local copy of the symbol you want to embed (I 
usually have a subdirectory "lib" for that), editing this file as usual 
using "down symbol", and optionally embedding it as a last step before 
sharing the schematic.  It might even be preferable to not embed the 
symbols at all and share a tarball (or git repository) with the schematic 
and the symbols as individual files.

If you already embedded the symbol and don't have a copy of the original 
symbol file, you could use "xorn extract schematic.sch symbol.sym" to 
extract the embedded symbol from the schematic.

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