Dinky is GUI-like with tabs and themes; Ne is keyboard-forward. Replace Nano with a modern alternative.
For Linux and MacOS, Fresh is the best of both worlds - a terminal text editor with GUI-like options. I'm all for it.
In most cases, built-in applications are specially-intended ones to get the job done and be a user's software of choice for all processes they need. However, when it comes to text editing, not all ...