diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/configure.patch b/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/configure.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..11105299eb4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/configure.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+--- configure.old	2013-07-30 19:42:51.000000000 +0200
++++ configure	2013-07-30 19:47:26.000000000 +0200
+@@ -163,31 +163,7 @@
+     echo 'Fails.'
+ fi
+ 
+-
+-if [ ! -r /usr/include/term.h ]; then
+-    note 'term.h'
+-    if [ -r /usr/include/ncurses/term.h ]; then
+-	echo "Found in /usr/include/ncurses"
+-	extraflags="$extraflags -I/usr/include/ncurses"
+-    else
+-	for i in pkg local; do
+-	    if [ -r /usr/$i/include/term.h ]; then
+-		echo "Found in /usr/$i/include"
+-		extralibs="$extralibs -L/usr/$i/lib"
+-		extraflags="$extraflags -I/usr/$i/include"
+-		break
+-	    else
+-		false
+-	    fi
+-	done ||
+-	{
+-	    echo 'Not found!' >&2
+-	    echo 'Do you have the ncurses devel package installed?' >&2
+-	    echo 'If you know where term.h is, please email the author!' >&2
+-	    exit 1
+-	}
+-    fi
+-fi
++extraflags="$extraflags $NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE"
+ 
+ note 'base and dirname'
+ if gcc_defines "__GLIBC__" || gcc_defines "__CYGWIN__" ; then
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ce69b5c0b5ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, ncurses }:
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "mg-20110905";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/mg-20110905.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0ac2c7wy5kkcflm7cmiqm5xhb5c4yfw3i33iln8civ1yd9z7vlqw";
+  };
+
+  dontAddPrefix = true;
+
+  patches = [ ./configure.patch ];
+  patchFlags = "-p0";
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    cp mg $out/bin
+    mkdir -p $out/share/man/man1
+    cp mg.1 $out/share/man/man1
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/;
+    description = "mg is Micro GNU/emacs, this is a portable version of the mg maintained by the OpenBSD team.";
+    license = "public domain";
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 36e8098d3693..c10e737ba97f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9889,5 +9889,7 @@ let
   dart = callPackage ../development/interpreters/dart { };
 
   httrack = callPackage ../tools/backup/httrack { };
+  
+  mg = callPackage ../applications/editors/mg { };
 
 }; in pkgs