I looked for similar for twenty years. Including compiling my own version from setedit, a clone of a turbo pascal ide. Ten years later someone mentioned “ne” which was acceptable and packaged.

Several years ago the better micro was born then packaged, I’ve used since. It has more features than edit like highlighting, though missing a menu. That’s good enough I think.

In some situations like constrained environments (openwrt) I use nano with CUA keybindings because micro is too big.

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lbruder 9 hours ago | parent [-]

have you tried mcedit? It's the editor mc (Midnight Commander, a Norton Commander clone) brings along, looks and feels like the old DOS editor, but has more features

	▲	mixmastamyk 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think so, though remember Norton and this clone. Don't believe I knew it had an editor. As I once said to a relative... "information useful twenty+ years ago." ;-) Just checked, key bindings are similar but largely wrong... focused on the Function keys.