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+{ symlinkJoin, makeWrapper, kakoune, plugins ? [], configure ? {} }:
+
+let
+  # "plugins" is the preferred way, but some configurations may be
+  # using "configure.plugins", so accept both
+  requestedPlugins = plugins ++ (configure.plugins or []);
+
+in
+  symlinkJoin {
+    name = "kakoune-${kakoune.version}";
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+
+    paths = [ kakoune ] ++ requestedPlugins;
+
+    postBuild = ''
+      # location of kak binary is used to find ../share/kak/autoload,
+      # unless explicitly overriden with KAKOUNE_RUNTIME
+      rm "$out/bin/kak"
+      makeWrapper "${kakoune}/bin/kak" "$out/bin/kak" --set KAKOUNE_RUNTIME "$out/share/kak"
+
+      # currently kakoune ignores doc files if they are symlinks, so workaround by
+      # copying doc files over, so they become regular files...
+      mkdir "$out/DELETE_ME"
+      mv "$out/share/kak/doc" "$out/DELETE_ME"
+      cp -r --dereference "$out/DELETE_ME/doc" "$out/share/kak"
+      rm -Rf "$out/DELETE_ME"
+    '';
+
+    meta = kakoune.meta // { priority = (kakoune.meta.priority or 0) - 1; };
+  }