Dear Santa, this year I don’t need gadgets - all I want is a Borland Turbo Vision–style console text editor with windows, tabs, and syntax highlighting. I promise to be good and keep my code compiling.

Something like this? https://github.com/magiblot/turbo

yes, but "real"

In that case, that editor better have a debugger as easy to use as the one in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++.

Thanks Santa.

How 'bout the editor that ships with Lazarus?

Isn't that just Scintilla-based? It's a bit outdated these days, e.g. missing LSP support.