diff --git a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/overrides.nix b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/overrides.nix
index e4710e27193c..a8bf2f56b2af 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/overrides.nix
@@ -112,6 +112,21 @@ self: super: {
     '';
   });
 
+  vim-pandoc = super.vim-pandoc.overrideAttrs(old: {
+    patches = (super.patches or []) ++ [
+      # Fix a failure on startup, which breaks the rplugin manifest generation
+      # https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc/pull/363#issuecomment-599080366
+      (fetchpatch {
+        name = "fix-fdetect.patch";
+        url = "https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc/commit/da4c0b0325c1bfad20f7cfd15abb53943fe22fc4.patch";
+        revert = true;
+        # For some reason that part was already reverted upstream.
+        excludes = ["ftdetect/pandoc.vim"];
+        sha256 = "10nykgsqpxx5hlagk83khjl8p58zx7z3bcryzinv5vv52wlqkq5p";
+      })
+    ];
+  });
+
   clighter8 = super.clighter8.overrideAttrs(old: {
     preFixup = ''
       sed "/^let g:clighter8_libclang_path/s|')$|${llvmPackages.clang.cc.lib}/lib/libclang.so')|" \