I am still working on the rest of the embedding feature, but it will
not hurt to bring up a few issues for discussion.

Currently, embedded files are recognized by their absolute filename
only and duplicate registrations (Inset::registerEmbeddedFiles()) are
merged. Using the current update() algorithm, ParConstIteartor of the
last inset that refers to an embedded file is stored. In the embedding
dialog, if you click on a file item, the main buffer will move to the
paragraph of that inset.

This raises the question whether or not we should save multiple copies
of the same file in the file_list_ (of course not to the disk) when an
embedded file is referred by multiple insets. This may simplify signal
handling when an inset is removed, and will make the embedding dialog
more useful. The embedding list itself will of course be more
complicated.

There is another related question: should we update
buffer::embeddedFiles() if embedding is disabled for this buffer? The
answer seems to be an obvious NO, but I like the convenience to
view/edit/navigate to certain embedded file using the embedding
dialog.

Cheers,
Bo

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