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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Kakoune(MakefilePackage):
+    """mawww's experiment for a better code editor."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.kakoune.org"
+    url      = "https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/releases/download/v2021.11.08/kakoune-2021.11.08.tar.bz2"
+
+    maintainers = ['Bambi']
+
+    version('2021.11.08', sha256='aa30889d9da11331a243a8f40fe4f6a8619321b19217debac8f565e06eddb5f4')
+
+    depends_on('ncurses')
+
+    conflicts('%gcc@:8', when='@2021.11.08', msg='GCC version must be at least 9.0!')
+
+    build_targets = ['all', 'man']
+
+    def edit(self, spec, prefix):
+        env['PREFIX'] = prefix