diff --git a/app-editors/l3afpad/Manifest b/app-editors/l3afpad/Manifest
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+DIST l3afpad-0.8.18.1.11.tar.gz 194318 BLAKE2B 56b79d097d375a1a549c8ebd3866de4b365f76226135505429c9497b4e48d4ec4bb377e22679508aa5acfc65e6b1590e23c2c297e6c5fcf86acffe7522ee9bb1 SHA512 f77494afc81d4c8586a976318d77d194eedf8414fc896cc9e2593de00dd3bb8c157f199a44908147b467f04b7a76c2c20aa67c64567685a77421ba0c2bff4643
diff --git a/app-editors/l3afpad/l3afpad-0.8.18.1.11.ebuild b/app-editors/l3afpad/l3afpad-0.8.18.1.11.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit xdg autotools
+
+DESCRIPTION="Simple GTK3 text editor (successor to leafpad)"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/l3afpad"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="emacs"
+
+BDEPEND=""
+DEPEND="x11-libs/gtk+:3"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		--enable-print \
+		$(use_enable emacs)
+}
diff --git a/app-editors/l3afpad/metadata.xml b/app-editors/l3afpad/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>spamfilter-1@wadenback.se</email>
+    <name>Mårten Wadenbäck</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">stevenhoneyman/l3afpad</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+  <use>
+    <flag name="emacs">
+      Implement Emacs key theme (experimental).
+    </flag>
+  </use>
+</pkgmetadata>