editors in rescue mode

[Brian McKee]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> Recently my system locked up because I screwed up my ~/.profile file. I
> decided to boot into rescue mode from the alternate ubuntu CD and couldn't
> find a text editor. Tried vim, vi, emacs, pico, etc all to no avail. Gave
> up, bailed out and booted into single user from the hard drive and found
> all the editors, repaired ~/.profile and all was well. The burning
> question is what editor is available on the alternate ubuntu CD rescue
> mode. There must be at least one or rescue mode is all but useless.

That's odd - I had a thread running here last week on the same
subject.  Vi and nano where there, just the terminal emulation was an
issue.   Did you use the 'rescue a broken system' option?

Brian