Nano: Will it be there for me?

Nano: Will it be there for me? I know nano (and Pico!) well on *Nix systems, and don't even know how to get out of vi if it accidentally loads (though on emacs I can get that far. Questions about my intelligence aside, is it okay to expect that nano will be available on most Linux distributions I encounter?
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Guest [Entry]

vi is part of the posix standard, so it will be present on any Unix by definition. nano will be much more iffy. All you really need to know is :q! to get out if it started accidentally, and then man vi to find enough info to figure out how to use it if nothing else is available. Also vim is not vi and you cannot take vim features for granted either.

Guest [Entry]

I haven't encountered a popular distro without it. So I think it's save to assume that.