diff --git a/gnu/packages/text-editors.scm b/gnu/packages/text-editors.scm
index 0c60d202a3..b1afd63b32 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/text-editors.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/text-editors.scm
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017, 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@
   #:use-module (guix git-download)
   #:use-module (guix utils)
   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
+  #:use-module (guix build-system cmake)
   #:use-module (guix build-system glib-or-gtk)
   #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
   #:use-module (gnu packages)
@@ -41,6 +43,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages libreoffice)
   #:use-module (gnu packages lua)
   #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages pcre)
   #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
   #:use-module (gnu packages qt)
   #:use-module (gnu packages regex)
@@ -343,3 +346,47 @@ team.")
      "@code{ghostwriter} provides a relaxing, distraction-free writing
 environment with Markdown markup.")
     (license license:gpl3+)))           ;icons/* under CC-BY-SA3
+
+(define-public editorconfig-core-c
+  (package
+    (name "editorconfig-core-c")
+    (version "0.12.3")
+    (source
+      (origin
+        (method git-fetch)
+        (uri (git-reference
+               (url "https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-core-c.git")
+               (commit (string-append "v" version))))
+        (file-name (git-file-name name version))
+        (sha256
+         (base32
+          "0jkc69r4jwn4rih6h6cqvgljjc3ff49cxj8286mi515aczr48cm1"))))
+    (build-system cmake-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     '(#:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (add-after 'unpack 'insert-tests
+           (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
+             (let ((tests (assoc-ref inputs "tests")))
+               (copy-recursively tests "tests"))
+             #t)))))
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("tests" ,(origin
+                   (method git-fetch)
+                   (uri (git-reference
+                          (url "https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-core-test")
+                          (commit "6ea1d8ece62cac9cf72c79dce4879b046abe1fe7"))) ; matches version
+                   (file-name (git-file-name "editorconfig-core-test" version))
+                   (sha256
+                    (base32
+                     "1sf6910idnd4bgzbj8w8f9ldsbkaqa0lh6syymwy3hfqda63acj7"))))))
+    (inputs
+     `(("pcre2" ,pcre2)))
+    (home-page "https://editorconfig.org/")
+    (synopsis "EditorConfig core library written in C")
+    (description "EditorConfig makes it easy to maintain the correct coding
+style when switching between different text editors and between different
+projects.  The EditorConfig project maintains a file format and plugins for
+various text editors which allow this file format to be read and used by those
+editors.")
+    (license license:bsd-2)))