diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/jed/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/jed/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e3be0139abf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/jed/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchzip
+, pkg-config
+, gpm
+, libXext
+, libXft
+, libXt
+, ncurses5
+, slang
+} :
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "jed";
+  version = "0.99-19";
+
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url = "https://www.jedsoft.org/releases/${pname}/${pname}-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "sha256-vzeX0P+2+IuKtrX+2lQDeJj7VMDS6XurD2pb2jhxy2Q=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    gpm
+    libXext
+    libXft
+    libXt
+    ncurses5
+    slang
+  ];
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "CC=cc"
+    "--with-slang=${slang}"
+    "JED_ROOT=${placeholder "out"}/share/jed"
+  ];
+
+  makeFlags = [
+    "jed" "xjed" "rgrep"
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    for i in autoconf/Makefile autoconf/Makefile.in \
+             doc/tm/Makefile src/Makefile.in; do
+      sed -e 's|/bin/cp|cp|' -i $i
+    done
+    for i in autoconf/aclocal.m4 configure; do
+      sed -e 's|ncurses5|ncurses|' -i $i
+    done
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    install -D src/objs/rgrep $out/bin
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A programmable text editor written around S-Lang";
+    longDescription = ''
+      JED is a freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS,
+      QNX, and win9X/NT platforms. Although it is a powerful editor designed for
+      use by programmers, its drop-down menu facility make it one of the
+      friendliest text editors around. Hence it is ideal for composing simple
+      email messages as well as editing complex programs in a variety of
+      computer languages.
+
+      JED makes extensive use of the S-Lang library, which endows it with the
+      powerful S-Lang scripting language. Some of its features are:
+
+      - Color syntax highlighting on color terminals, e.g., Linux console or a
+        remote color terminal via dialup (as well as Xjed)
+      - Folding support
+      - Drop-down menus on _ALL_ terminals/platforms
+      - Emulation of Emacs, EDT, Wordstar, Borland, and Brief editors
+      - Extensible in the C-like S-Lang language making the editor completely
+        customizable.
+      - Capable of reading GNU info files from within JED's info browser
+      - A variety of programming modes (with syntax highlighting) are available
+        including C, C++, FORTRAN, TeX, HTML, SH, python, IDL, DCL, NROFF...
+      - Edit TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing (BiBTeX support too)
+      - Asynchronous subprocess support allowing one to compile from within the
+        editor
+      - Built-in support for the GPM mouse driver on Linux console
+      - Abbreviation mode and Dynamic abbreviation mode
+      - 8 bit clean with mute/dead key support
+      - Supported on most Unix, VMS, OS/2, MSDOS (386+), win9X/NT, QNX, and BeOS
+        systems
+      - Rectangular cut/paste; regular expressions; incremental searches; search
+        replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffers; shell
+        modes; directory editor (dired); mail; rmail; ispell; and much, much
+        more
+    '';
+    homepage = "https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    platforms = slang.meta.platforms;
+  };
+}
+# TODO: build tex documentation
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6c9a1f4cce95..c0f40358818b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -22477,6 +22477,8 @@ in
 
   jdupes = callPackage ../tools/misc/jdupes { };
 
+  jed = callPackage ../applications/editors/jed { };
+
   jedit = callPackage ../applications/editors/jedit { };
 
   jgmenu = callPackage ../applications/misc/jgmenu { };