diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/dit/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/dit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..03c3c5d5eec6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/dit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ lib, fetchurl, stdenv, coreutils, ncurses, lua }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "dit-${version}";
+  version = "0.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://hisham.hm/dit/releases/${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0bwczbv7annbbpg7bgbsqd5kwypn81sza4v7v99fin94wwmcn784";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ coreutils ncurses lua ];
+
+  prePatch = ''
+    patchShebangs tools/GenHeaders
+  '';
+
+  # needs GNU tail for tail -r
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace Prototypes.h --replace 'tail' "$(type -P tail)"
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A console text editor for Unix that you already know how to use";
+    homepage = https://hisham.hm/dit/;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = with platforms; linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ davidak ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 03018649317b..48fa5a0123b5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -15213,6 +15213,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   distrho = callPackage ../applications/audio/distrho {};
 
+  dit = callPackage ../applications/editors/dit { };
+
   djvulibre = callPackage ../applications/misc/djvulibre { };
 
   djvu2pdf = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/djvu2pdf { };