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.