I've just installed scratchbox, the SDK and xephyr, etc and I'm a little confused. I'm used to developing applications with jedit and I'm not sure how to edit files in jedit outside the scratchbox env and still be able to access them inside scratchbox.

The basic question is: How can I make files in my home directory outside of scratchbox also available inside scratchbox?

Thanks,
Geoffeg

If you're running Linux, why not symlink?

I also work with a symlink from my "normal" home directory to my scratchbox home directory. Is scratchbox installed in your root directory, you can create it like this:

cd <to your home directory>
ln -s /scratchbox/users/<your user name>/home/<your user name>/ scratchbox_home

Now you have a "directory" called scratchbox_home in your home directory. So you can easily access the files inside your scratchbox home director from your Linux system.

Thanks all. I tried a symlink but I tried to create a symlink to ~/workspace from /scratchbox home and that didn't work. blachner's solution worked great.

I don't do any symlinking, I simply access the files (to unpack, for example, or to edit them) directly in /scratchbox/... in one terminal, then in another terminal I'm logged into scratchbox. So I edit from my normal environment and build from inside scratchbox.