diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/moe/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/moe/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a1506eb9d6cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/moe/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl
+, lzip, ncurses
+}:
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+
+  name = "moe-${version}";
+  version = "1.9";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/moe/${name}.tar.lz";
+    sha256 = "1wsfzy0iia0c89wnx1ilzw54wqcmlp2nz8mkpvc393z0zagrx48q";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ lzip ];
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A small, 8-bit clean editor";
+    longDescription = ''
+      GNU moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean, console text editor for ISO-8859 and
+      ASCII character encodings. It has a modeless, user-friendly interface,
+      online help, multiple windows, unlimited undo/redo capability, unlimited
+      line length, unlimited buffers, global search/replace (on all buffers at
+      once), block operations, automatic indentation, word wrapping, file name
+      completion, directory browser, duplicate removal from prompt histories,
+      delimiter matching, text conversion from/to UTF-8, romanization, etc.
+    '';
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/moe/;
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ AndersonTorres ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
+# TODO: a configurable, global moerc file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 7a29d08e2e96..86c436225e09 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -14610,6 +14610,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   mi2ly = callPackage ../applications/audio/mi2ly {};
 
+  moe =  callPackage ../applications/editors/moe { };
+
   praat = callPackage ../applications/audio/praat { };
 
   quvi = callPackage ../applications/video/quvi/tool.nix {