diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/mind-wave/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/mind-wave/default.nix
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-{ lib
-, pkgs
-, melpaBuild
-, substituteAll
-}:
-# To use this package with emacs-overlay:
-# nixpkgs.overlays = [
-#   inputs.emacs-overlay.overlay
-#   (final: prev: {
-#     emacs30 = prev.emacsGit.overrideAttrs (old: {
-#       name = "emacs30";
-#       version = inputs.emacs-upstream.shortRev;
-#       src = inputs.emacs-upstream;
-#     });
-#     emacsWithConfig = prev.emacsWithPackagesFromUsePackage {
-#       config = let
-#         readRecursively = dir:
-#           builtins.concatStringsSep "\n"
-#           (lib.mapAttrsToList (name: value:
-#             if value == "regular"
-#             then builtins.readFile (dir + "/${name}")
-#             else
-#               (
-#                 if value == "directory"
-#                 then readRecursively (dir + "/${name}")
-#                 else []
-#               ))
-#           (builtins.readDir dir));
-#       in
-#         # your home-manager config
-#         readRecursively ./home/modules/emacs;
-#       alwaysEnsure = true;
-#       package = final.emacs30;
-#       extraEmacsPackages = epkgs: [
-#         epkgs.use-package
-#         (epkgs.melpaBuild rec {
-#           # ...
-#         })
-#       ];
-#       override = epkgs:
-#         epkgs
-#         // {
-#           # ...
-#         };
-#     };
-#   })
-# ];
-melpaBuild rec {
-  pname = "mind-wave";
-  version = "20230523.0332"; # 03:32 UTC
-  src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "manateelazycat";
-    repo = "mind-wave";
-    rev = "5109162b74872091c5090a28389bef8f7020274c";
-    sha256 = "sha256-ZyXrpb0GLWSGnMsVIGL9qALSBCeIWNF0UwkCFgCKnu8=";
-  };
-  commit = "5109162b74872091c5090a28389bef8f7020274c";
-  # elisp dependencies
-  packageRequires = [
-    pkgs.emacsPackages.markdown-mode
-  ];
-  buildInputs = [
-    (pkgs.python3.withPackages (ps:
-      with ps; [
-        openai
-        epc
-        sexpdata
-        six
-      ]))
-  ];
-  recipe = pkgs.writeText "recipe" ''
-    (mind-wave
-    :repo "manateelazycat/mind-wave"
-    :fetcher github
-    :files
-    ("mind-wave.el"
-    "mind-wave-epc.el"
-    "mind_wave.py"
-    "utils.py"))
-  '';
-  doCheck = true;
-  passthru.updateScript = pkgs.unstableGitUpdater {};
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = " Emacs AI plugin based on ChatGPT API ";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/manateelazycat/mind-wave";
-    license = licenses.gpl3Only;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [yuzukicat];
-  };
-}