diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/textadept/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/textadept/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9eb1bdc7e43c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/textadept/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+{stdenv, fetchhg, fetchurl, fetchzip, gtk, glib, pkgconfig, unzip, ncurses, zip}:
+let
+  buildInputs = [
+    gtk glib pkgconfig unzip ncurses zip
+  ];
+  cached_url = url: sha256: fetchurl {
+    inherit sha256 url;
+  };
+  get_url = url: sha256: ''
+    cp ${(cached_url url sha256)} $(basename ${(cached_url url sha256)} | sed -e 's@^[0-9a-z]\+-@@')
+    touch $(basename ${(cached_url url sha256)} | sed -e 's@^[0-9a-z]\+-@@')
+  '';
+  cached_url_zip = url: sha256: fetchzip {
+    inherit sha256 url;
+  };
+  get_url_zip = url: sha256: let zipdir = (cached_url_zip url sha256); in ''
+    ( d=$PWD; cd $TMPDIR; name=$(basename ${zipdir} .zip | sed -e 's/^[a-z0-9]*-//'); 
+      cp -r ${zipdir} $name; chmod u+rwX -R $name; zip -r $d/$name.zip $name )
+    touch $name
+  '';
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec{
+  version = "8.0";
+  scintillua_version = "3.5.5-1";
+  name = "textadept-${version}";
+  inherit buildInputs;
+  src = fetchhg {
+    url = http://foicica.com/hg/textadept;
+    rev = "textadept_${version}";
+    sha256 = "18kcphqkn0l77dbcyvywy3wh13ib280bb0qsffaqy439gk5zr7ql";
+  };
+  preConfigure = ''
+    cd src
+    mkdir wget
+    echo '#! ${stdenv.shell}' > wget/wget
+    chmod a+x wget/wget
+    export PATH="$PATH:$PWD/wget"
+    ${get_url http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scintilla/scintilla355.tgz "11n49h58xh35vj1j85cxasl93rjiv699c5cs5lpv19skfsgs3sb4"}
+    ${get_url http://foicica.com/scinterm/download/scinterm_1.6.zip "0ixwj9il6ri1xl4nvb6f108z4qhrahysza6frbbaqmbdz21hnmcl"}
+    ${get_url http://foicica.com/scintillua/download/scintillua_3.5.5-1.zip "0bpz5rmgaisbimhm6rpn961mbv30cwqid7kh9lad94v3y9ppvf35"}
+    ${get_url http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.0.tar.gz "00fv1p6dv4701pyjrlvkrr6ykzxqy9hy1qxzj6qmwlb0ssr5wjmf"}
+    ${get_url http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg-0.12.2.tar.gz "01002avq90yc8rgxa5z9a1768jm054iid3pnfpywdcfij45jgbba"}
+    ${get_url_zip http://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem/archive/v_1_6_3.zip "1hxcnqj53540ysyw8fzax7f09pl98b8f55s712gsglcdxp2g2pri"}
+    ${get_url http://foicica.com/lspawn/download/lspawn_1.2.zip "1fhfi274bxlsdvva5q5j0wv8hx68cmf3vnv9spllzad4jdvz82xv"}
+    ${get_url http://luajit.org/download/LuaJIT-2.0.3.tar.gz "0ydxpqkmsn2c341j4r2v6r5r0ig3kbwv3i9jran3iv81s6r6rgjm"}
+    ${get_url http://foicica.com/gtdialog/download/gtdialog_1.2.zip "0nvcldyhj8abr8jny9pbyfjwg8qfp9f2h508vjmrvr5c5fqdbbm0"}
+    ${get_url http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/cdk.tar.gz "00s87kq5x10x22azr6q17b663syk169y3dk3kaj8z6dlk2b8vknp"}
+    ${get_url_zip http://foicica.com/hg/bombay/archive/d704272c3629.zip "19dg3ky87rfy0a3319vmv18hgn9spplpznvlqnk3djh239ddpplw"}
+    mv d704*.zip bombay.zip
+    ${get_url http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libtermkey/libtermkey-0.17.tar.gz "12gkrv1ldwk945qbpprnyawh0jz7rmqh18fyndbxiajyxmj97538"}
+    make deps
+  '';
+  postBuild = ''
+    make curses
+  '';
+  postInstall = ''
+    make curses install PREFIX=$out MAKECMDGOALS=curses
+  '';
+  makeFlags = ["PREFIX=$(out)"];
+  meta = {
+    inherit version;
+    description = "An extensible text editor based on Scintilla with Lua scripting";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit ;
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    homepage = "http://foicica.com/textadept";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 7e231d76349a..5a8a09cbf0e4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2977,6 +2977,8 @@ let
 
   texstudio = callPackage ../applications/editors/texstudio { };
 
+  textadept = callPackage ../applications/editors/textadept { };
+
   thc-hydra = callPackage ../tools/security/thc-hydra { };
 
   tiled = callPackage ../applications/editors/tiled { qt = qt4; };