diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index ddd5ab72c9a3..44260ac1f25a 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -189,6 +189,12 @@
     githubId = 1250775;
     name = "Adolfo E. García Castro";
   };
+  adsr = {
+    email = "as@php.net";
+    github = "adsr";
+    githubId = 315003;
+    name = "Adam Saponara";
+  };
   aepsil0n = {
     email = "eduard.bopp@aepsil0n.de";
     github = "aepsil0n";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/mle/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/mle/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f91d1d8fde61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/mle/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, termbox, pcre, uthash, lua5_3 }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "mle";
+  version = "1.4.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "adsr";
+    repo = "mle";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "15i5lzcp0zar2zh34ky9m6pvvi41zgdrl3hmylpgsqnnj4r87vqc";
+  };
+
+  # Fix location of Lua 5.3 header and library
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace Makefile --replace "-llua5.3" "-llua";
+    substituteInPlace mle.h    --replace "<lua5.3/" "<";
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [ termbox pcre uthash lua5_3 ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  installFlags = [ "prefix=${placeholder "out"}" ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Small, flexible terminal-based text editor";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/adsr/mle";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ adsr ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index af11c7ac2e7d..3abab584bd9c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -20179,6 +20179,8 @@ in
 
   micro = callPackage ../applications/editors/micro { };
 
+  mle = callPackage ../applications/editors/mle { };
+
   nano = callPackage ../applications/editors/nano { };
 
   nanoblogger = callPackage ../applications/misc/nanoblogger { };