diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/tests.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/tests.nix
index 085fceac1108..1e46a59f563b 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/tests.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/tests.nix
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ rec {
   nvim_with_plug = neovim.override {
     extraName = "-with-plug";
     configure.plug.plugins = with pkgs.vimPlugins; [
-      base16-vim
+      (base16-vim.overrideAttrs(old: { pname = old.pname + "-unique-for-tests-please-dont-use"; }))
     ];
     configure.customRC = ''
       color base16-tomorrow-night
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ rec {
 
   run_nvim_with_plug = runTest nvim_with_plug ''
     export HOME=$TMPDIR
-    ${nvim_with_plug}/bin/nvim -i NONE -c 'color base16-tomorrow-night'  +quit!
+    ${nvim_with_plug}/bin/nvim -i NONE -c 'color base16-tomorrow-night'  +quit! -e
   '';
 
 
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/vim-utils.nix b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/vim-utils.nix
index 60b9b60806d5..01c32b2a3996 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/vim-utils.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/vim-utils.nix
@@ -292,14 +292,12 @@ let
 
       /* vim-plug is an extremely popular vim plugin manager.
       */
-      /* Remove repeated "/." suffixes from a path */
-      stripDots = path: lib.head (builtins.split "(/\\.)*$" path);
       plugImpl =
       (''
         source ${vimPlugins.vim-plug.rtp}/plug.vim
         silent! call plug#begin('/dev/null')
 
-        '' + (lib.concatMapStringsSep "\n" (pkg: "Plug '${stripDots pkg.rtp}'") plug.plugins) + ''
+        '' + (lib.concatMapStringsSep "\n" (pkg: "Plug '${pkg.rtp}'") plug.plugins) + ''
 
         call plug#end()
       '');