editors in rescue mode

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Brian McKee wrote:

> 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?

Yes. I didn't try nano, didn't think of it.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
The most dangerous ones aren't the ones who don't know.
They're the ones who don't know that they don't know.