diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/wat-mode/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/wat-mode/default.nix
index 6eb5b9478541..4f5ff8535bdb 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/wat-mode/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/wat-mode/default.nix
@@ -1,24 +1,22 @@
 # Manually packaged until it is upstreamed to melpa
 # See https://github.com/devonsparks/wat-mode/issues/1
-{ lib, melpaBuild, fetchFromGitHub, writeText }:
+{
+  lib,
+  melpaBuild,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+}:
 
-melpaBuild rec {
+melpaBuild {
   pname = "wat-mode";
-  version = "20220713.1";
+  version = "0-unstable-2022-07-13";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "devonsparks";
-    repo = pname;
+    repo = "wat-mode";
     rev = "46b4df83e92c585295d659d049560dbf190fe501";
     hash = "sha256-jV5V3TRY+D3cPSz3yFwVWn9yInhGOYIaUTPEhsOBxto=";
   };
 
-  commit = "46b4df83e92c585295d659d049560dbf190fe501";
-
-  recipe = writeText "recipe" ''
-    (wat-mode :repo "devonsparks/wat-mode" :fetcher github)
-  '';
-
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/devonsparks/wat-mode";
     description = "Emacs major mode for WebAssembly's text format";