diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
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+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "flake-utils": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "systems": "systems"
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1694529238,
+        "narHash": "sha256-zsNZZGTGnMOf9YpHKJqMSsa0dXbfmxeoJ7xHlrt+xmY=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "rev": "ff7b65b44d01cf9ba6a71320833626af21126384",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1696757521,
+        "narHash": "sha256-cfgtLNCBLFx2qOzRLI6DHfqTdfWI+UbvsKYa3b3fvaA=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "2646b294a146df2781b1ca49092450e8a32814e1",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "id": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "indirect"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
+      }
+    },
+    "systems": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1681028828,
+        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
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+{
+  description = "kakoune (patch)";
+
+  inputs = {
+    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+  };
+
+  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils }:
+    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (sys:
+    let
+      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${sys};
+      kak = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+        pname = "kakoune";
+        version = "2022.10.31";
+        src = ./. ;
+        makeFlags = [ "debug=no" "PREFIX=${placeholder "out"}" ];
+
+        preConfigure = ''
+          export version="v${version}"
+        '';
+
+        enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+        doInstallCheck = true;
+        installCheckPhase = ''
+          $out/bin/kak -ui json -e "kill 0"
+        '';
+
+        postInstall = ''
+          # make share/kak/autoload a directory, so we can use symlinkJoin with plugins
+          cd "$out/share/kak"
+          autoload_target=$(readlink autoload)
+          rm autoload
+          mkdir autoload
+          ln -s --relative "$autoload_target" autoload
+        '';
+      };
+    in rec {
+      packages.kak = kak;
+      packages.default = packages.kak;
+    }
+  );
+}