The top intuitive to use TUI editors in my heart will always be: - MS Dos Edit - Turbo Pascal 6
Edit felt like a windows application: select with shift+arrows, move fast with ctrl+home/end.
Turbo Pascal's keybindings were a bit influenced by WordStar's, I think, so a bit old style already at the time. But, my friend, the TUI Toolkit, TurboVision! What did they do there! Multiple windows that could be dragged and resized, blazingly fast. All of this on a 486 with megabytes of ram.
I never found any TUI editors like those two.
Try tilde editor. It's close-ish.