diff --git a/app-editors/howl/Manifest b/app-editors/howl/Manifest
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+++ b/app-editors/howl/Manifest
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+DIST howl-0.6-LuaJIT-2.1.0-beta3.tar.gz 1025180 BLAKE2B ac3d12e25bd9946ba41aed6672c66884e7256e6be99d7ee8d1260d697453c966b24d60387f278f47233bad44cda61085c9059e6f62c0bc7cfdaaefde282346c5 SHA512 c44e967a0f671ed32b55aee810bc8b3b63737a2d7363b8984ae1949b24f98dbb3f9be7c1e10239fdeb96a3e3c836f606342cbd61838cf9bcadb077443eb5bc12
+DIST howl-0.6-lpeg-0.10.2.tar.gz 53887 BLAKE2B 78f606cbc6c45709eaf0910cc272d8f9d554b95cd48c144c94a661eee98798e338abed81751e058820504b2f6f47fa70ca375dd13d3179e9aee3d64abda676c0 SHA512 0f8cc7e1a24654fd2999fea6d3945a7469afdee41598de807334f70a1ce6f891c73ac76db1d6592f7364d132fb6c5aa05a32f0848a5a8c7a317c26d3b78ea40d
+DIST howl-0.6.tar.gz 17502537 BLAKE2B ecfa5e7a6a4f188600582ec04c7d03afc3cc80155a77bd24ff430854b0b58d668c6cc874c68cd73e8440cf21f7811d3a080e4d2cf0851765d8c7888c3d4b4ee6 SHA512 07cf3cc1d3de623bf895c3530732176f2493b04557e6d342f9b49efdfbf1609ffcd9ab429cbabdf747824b8864ac7a4f104b62e204fee37b18e5a908d3fd8d30
+DIST howl-9999-LuaJIT-2.1.0-beta3.tar.gz 1025180 BLAKE2B ac3d12e25bd9946ba41aed6672c66884e7256e6be99d7ee8d1260d697453c966b24d60387f278f47233bad44cda61085c9059e6f62c0bc7cfdaaefde282346c5 SHA512 c44e967a0f671ed32b55aee810bc8b3b63737a2d7363b8984ae1949b24f98dbb3f9be7c1e10239fdeb96a3e3c836f606342cbd61838cf9bcadb077443eb5bc12
+DIST howl-9999-lpeg-0.10.2.tar.gz 53887 BLAKE2B 78f606cbc6c45709eaf0910cc272d8f9d554b95cd48c144c94a661eee98798e338abed81751e058820504b2f6f47fa70ca375dd13d3179e9aee3d64abda676c0 SHA512 0f8cc7e1a24654fd2999fea6d3945a7469afdee41598de807334f70a1ce6f891c73ac76db1d6592f7364d132fb6c5aa05a32f0848a5a8c7a317c26d3b78ea40d
diff --git a/app-editors/howl/howl-0.6.ebuild b/app-editors/howl/howl-0.6.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+LUAJIT_V="LuaJIT-2.1.0-beta3"
+LPEG_V="lpeg-0.10.2"
+
+# What else should we do?
+BUNDLE_SRC="
+	http://luajit.org/download/${LUAJIT_V}.tar.gz -> ${P}-${LUAJIT_V}.tar.gz
+	http://nordman.org/mirror/lpeg/${LPEG_V}.tar.gz -> ${P}-${LPEG_V}.tar.gz
+"
+
+inherit eutils desktop xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lightweight editor with keyboard-centric minimalistic interface"
+HOMEPAGE="https://howl.io"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/howl-editor/${PN}.git"
+	KEYWORDS=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/howl-editor/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+SRC_URI="
+	${BUNDLE_SRC}
+	${SRC_URI}
+"
+
+RESTRICT="mirror"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="
+	x11-libs/gtk+:3[X]
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# Instead of hooking into src_fetch it's easier to unpack
+	# other sources in src_prepare for the git version.
+	if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]
+	then
+		# This is a little bit too much back-and-forth
+		unpack "${P}-${LUAJIT_V}.tar.gz"
+		mv "${S}/${LUAJIT_V}" "${WORKDIR}"
+		unpack "${P}-${LPEG_V}.tar.gz"
+		mv "${S}/${LPEG_V}" "${WORKDIR}"
+	fi
+
+	# Move "bundles" into a dir known by 'howl'.
+	mv "${WORKDIR}/${LUAJIT_V}" src/deps/ || die
+	mv "${WORKDIR}/${LPEG_V}" src/deps/ || die
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	if pushd src
+	then
+		# By default this fetches deps with curl/wget
+		# but if we have "bundle" sources it shouldn't.
+		# If you get sandbox viotlation here that means
+		# the "bundles" fetched were probably incorrect.
+		emake
+		popd
+	else
+		die
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+
+	if pushd src
+	then
+		emake PREFIX="${D}"/usr install
+		popd
+	else
+		die
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_desktop_database_update
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	xdg_desktop_database_update
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+}
diff --git a/app-editors/howl/howl-9999.ebuild b/app-editors/howl/howl-9999.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c360174
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-editors/howl/howl-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+LUAJIT_V="LuaJIT-2.1.0-beta3"
+LPEG_V="lpeg-0.10.2"
+
+# What else should we do?
+BUNDLE_SRC="
+	http://luajit.org/download/${LUAJIT_V}.tar.gz -> ${P}-${LUAJIT_V}.tar.gz
+	http://nordman.org/mirror/lpeg/${LPEG_V}.tar.gz -> ${P}-${LPEG_V}.tar.gz
+"
+
+inherit eutils desktop xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lightweight editor with keyboard-centric minimalistic interface"
+HOMEPAGE="https://howl.io"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/howl-editor/${PN}.git"
+	KEYWORDS=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/howl-editor/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+SRC_URI="
+	${BUNDLE_SRC}
+	${SRC_URI}
+"
+
+RESTRICT="mirror"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="
+	x11-libs/gtk+:3[X]
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# Instead of hooking into src_fetch it's easier to unpack
+	# other sources in src_prepare for the git version.
+	if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]
+	then
+		# This is a little bit too much back-and-forth
+		unpack "${P}-${LUAJIT_V}.tar.gz"
+		mv "${S}/${LUAJIT_V}" "${WORKDIR}"
+		unpack "${P}-${LPEG_V}.tar.gz"
+		mv "${S}/${LPEG_V}" "${WORKDIR}"
+	fi
+
+	# Move "bundles" into a dir known by 'howl'.
+	mv "${WORKDIR}/${LUAJIT_V}" src/deps/ || die
+	mv "${WORKDIR}/${LPEG_V}" src/deps/ || die
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	if pushd src
+	then
+		# By default this fetches deps with curl/wget
+		# but if we have "bundle" sources it shouldn't.
+		# If you get sandbox viotlation here that means
+		# the "bundles" fetched were probably incorrect.
+		emake
+		popd
+	else
+		die
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+
+	if pushd src
+	then
+		emake PREFIX="${D}"/usr install
+		popd
+	else
+		die
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_desktop_database_update
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	xdg_desktop_database_update
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+}
diff --git a/app-editors/howl/metadata.xml b/app-editors/howl/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+    <upstream>
+        <remote-id type="github">howl-editor/howl</remote-id>
+    </upstream>
+    <longdescription>
+        Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable.
+        It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript.
+        It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.
+    </longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>