diff --git a/app-editors/xwpe/Manifest b/app-editors/xwpe/Manifest
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+DIST xwpe-1.6.6.tar.gz 1207219 BLAKE2B 06cdd8d1fe3e33f071a7dd08d134d66a88b4108b0026242602b5657598ce9ba40cee76a57da6a55fb2af708403edeafd7a7570f0e5f82dcde05136f97da45e5c SHA512 acf32b51e6eac121190eb580f429d52c32e430829a6dccfe9d1c86f48fcba432a19bc5f4211f17a5b0bea0e0810c20e5d1008f7a1f503ba36ac0ee85c842464d
diff --git a/app-editors/xwpe/metadata.xml b/app-editors/xwpe/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>juan.mendezr@proton.me</email>
+		<name>Juan Manuel Méndez Rey</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		xwpe (the X Windows Programming Environment) is a programming and text
+		editor in the style of the Borland Turbo C IDE of the early 1990s,
+		written by Fred Kruse in 1993, maintained by Dennis Payne from 2000 to
+		2006, and revived in 2026. A single binary runs in the console
+		(wpe/we, ncurses) or under X11 (xwpe/xwe, anti-aliased Xft/Cairo,
+		UTF-8). It pairs a syntax-highlighting editor with a Borland-style menu
+		and dialog system, project management, multi-language compiler
+		integration and source-level debugging (gdb/jdb/pdb), plus LSP and DAP
+		clients.
+	</longdescription>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="X">Build the X11 GUI front-end (xwpe/xwe) with Xft/Cairo/Pango rendering</flag>
+	</use>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="codeberg">mendezr/xwpe</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-editors/xwpe/xwpe-1.6.6.ebuild b/app-editors/xwpe/xwpe-1.6.6.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="Borland-style programming environment and editor for console and X11"
+HOMEPAGE="https://codeberg.org/mendezr/xwpe"
+# Upstream "make dist" tarball attached to the Codeberg release; it ships a
+# pre-generated configure, so no eautoreconf is needed.
+SRC_URI="https://codeberg.org/mendezr/xwpe/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="X gpm"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-libs/json-c:=
+	dev-libs/libvterm
+	sys-libs/ncurses:=
+	virtual/zlib
+	X? (
+		x11-libs/cairo
+		x11-libs/libX11
+		x11-libs/libXft
+		x11-libs/pango
+	)
+	gpm? ( sys-libs/gpm )
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	sys-apps/texinfo
+"
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		$(use_with X x) \
+		$(use_with gpm)
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	emake check
+}