diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/uemacs/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/uemacs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..551fa67d986
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/uemacs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, ncurses }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "uemacs-${version}";
+  version = "2014-12-08";
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git;
+    rev = "8841922689769960fa074fbb053cb8507f2f3ed9";
+    sha256 = "14yq7kpkax111cg6k7i3mnqk7sq7a65krq6qizzj7vvnm7bsj3sd";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace Makefile \
+      --replace "-lcurses" "-lncurses" \
+      --replace "CFLAGS=-O2" "CFLAGS+=" \
+      --replace "BINDIR=/usr/bin" "BINDIR=$out/bin" \
+      --replace "LIBDIR=/usr/lib" "LIBDIR=$out/share/uemacs"
+    substituteInPlace epath.h \
+      --replace "/usr/global/lib/" "$out/share/uemacs/" \
+      --replace "/usr/local/bin/" "$out/bin/" \
+      --replace "/usr/local/lib/" "$out/share/uemacs/" \
+      --replace "/usr/local/" "$out/bin/" \
+      --replace "/usr/lib/" "$out/share/uemacs/"
+    mkdir -p $out/bin $out/share/uemacs
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git;
+    description = "Torvalds Micro-emacs fork";
+    longDescription = ''
+      uEmacs/PK 4.0 is a full screen editor based on MicroEMACS 3.9e
+    '';
+    license = licenses.unfree;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index cedc20c020b..63e71f8c65a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3916,6 +3916,8 @@ in
 
   udunits = callPackage ../development/libraries/udunits { };
 
+  uemacs = callPackage ../applications/editors/uemacs { };
+
   uhttpmock = callPackage ../development/libraries/uhttpmock { };
 
   uim = callPackage ../tools/inputmethods/uim {