diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/quack/builder.sh b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/quack/builder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a3b1bcfd8052
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/quack/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+source "$stdenv/setup" || exit 1
+
+emacsDir="$out/share/emacs/site-lisp"
+
+ensureDir "$emacsDir" &&					\
+cp "$src" "$emacsDir/quack.el" &&				\
+emacs --batch -f batch-byte-compile "$emacsDir/quack.el"
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/quack/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/quack/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d95e11095399
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/quack/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, emacs }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "quack-0.30";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    # XXX: Upstream URL is not versioned, which might eventually break this.
+    url = "http://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/quack.el";
+    sha256 = "1j68azxbc54hdk3cw9q95qpz99wgj9xxgrzzwmydxh3zafy5faqs";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ emacs ];
+
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = ''Quack: Enhanced Emacs Support for Editing and
+                    Running Scheme Code'';
+    homepage = http://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/;
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6ae71cc2ec9e..337bf80bf2fb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5427,6 +5427,10 @@ let pkgs = rec {
 
   qemuImage = qemuImageFun null;
 
+  quack = import ../applications/editors/emacs-modes/quack {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv emacs;
+  };
+
   ratpoison = import ../applications/window-managers/ratpoison {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv fontconfig readline;
     inherit (xlibs) libX11 inputproto libXt libXpm libXft