diff --git a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix
index 20cbbf275c3..e6bca9484a2 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ let
 
   # TL;DR
   # * Add your plugin to ./vim-plugin-names
-  # * sort -udf ./vim-plugin-names > sorted && mv sorted vim-plugin-names
   # * run ./update.py
   #
   # If additional modifications to the build process are required,
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/update.py b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/update.py
index c0ecd5d036e..ac959f055b4 100755
--- a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/update.py
+++ b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/update.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 # $ nix run nixpkgs.python3Packages.flake8 -c flake8 --ignore E501,E265 update.py
 
 import argparse
-import fileinput
 import functools
 import http
 import json
@@ -124,7 +123,7 @@ class Repo:
             new_owner, new_name = (
                 urllib.parse.urlsplit(response_url).path.strip("/").split("/")[:2]
             )
-            end_line = f" as {self.alias}\n" if self.alias else "\n"
+            end_line = "\n" if self.alias is None else f" as {self.alias}\n"
             plugin_line = "{owner}/{name}" + end_line
 
             old_plugin = plugin_line.format(owner=self.owner, name=self.name)
@@ -416,13 +415,14 @@ in lib.fix' (lib.extends overrides packages)
     print(f"updated {outfile}")
 
 
-def update_redirects(input_file: Path, output_file: Path, redirects: dict):
-    with fileinput.input(input_file, inplace=True) as f:
-        for line in f:
-            line = " ".join(line.split())
-            print(redirects.get(line, line), end="")
-    print(
-        f"""\
+def rewrite_input(input_file: Path, output_file: Path, redirects: dict):
+    with open(input_file, "r") as f:
+        lines = f.readlines()
+
+    if redirects:
+        lines = [redirects.get(line, line) for line in lines]
+        print(
+            f"""\
 Redirects have been detected and {input_file} has been updated. Please take the
 following steps:
     1. Go ahead and commit just the updated expressions as you intended to do:
@@ -430,16 +430,19 @@ following steps:
             git commit -m "vimPlugins: Update"
     2. If any of the plugin names were changed, throw an error in aliases.nix:
             <oldName> = deprecateName "<oldName>" "<newName>"; # backwards compat, added YYYY-MM-DD
-    3. Make sure the updated {input_file} is still correctly sorted:
-            sort -udf ./vim-plugin-names > sorted && mv sorted vim-plugin-names
-    4. Run this script again so these changes will be reflected in the
+    3. Run this script again so these changes will be reflected in the
     generated expressions:
             ./update.py
-    5. Commit {input_file} along with aliases and generated expressions:
+    4. Commit {input_file} along with aliases and generated expressions:
             git add {output_file} {input_file} aliases.nix
             git commit -m "vimPlugins: Update redirects"
-"""
-    )
+        """
+        )
+
+    lines = sorted(lines, key=str.casefold)
+
+    with open(input_file, "w") as f:
+        f.writelines(lines)
 
 
 def parse_args():
@@ -488,8 +491,7 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     generate_nix(plugins, args.outfile)
 
-    if redirects:
-        update_redirects(args.input_file, args.outfile, redirects)
+    rewrite_input(args.input_file, args.outfile, redirects)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/vim-plugin-names b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/vim-plugin-names
index 704fc12e39b..8ec4e90e394 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/vim-plugin-names
+++ b/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/vim-plugin-names
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ cocopon/iceberg.vim
 cohama/lexima.vim
 ctjhoa/spacevim
 ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim
-dag/vim2hs
 dag/vim-fish
+dag/vim2hs
 dannyob/quickfixstatus
 darfink/starsearch.vim
 dart-lang/dart-vim-plugin
@@ -315,8 +315,8 @@ neoclide/coc-neco
 neoclide/coc-pairs
 neoclide/coc-prettier
 neoclide/coc-python
-neoclide/coc-rls
 neoclide/coc-r-lsp
+neoclide/coc-rls
 neoclide/coc-smartf
 neoclide/coc-snippets
 neoclide/coc-solargraph
@@ -334,10 +334,10 @@ neoclide/denite-extra
 neoclide/denite-git
 neoclide/vim-easygit
 neomake/neomake
+neovim/nvim-lsp
+neovim/nvimdev.nvim
 neovimhaskell/haskell-vim
 neovimhaskell/nvim-hs.vim
-neovim/nvimdev.nvim
-neovim/nvim-lsp
 neutaaaaan/iosvkem
 nfnty/vim-nftables
 nicoe/deoplete-khard
@@ -505,16 +505,14 @@ Valodim/deoplete-notmuch
 vhda/verilog_systemverilog.vim
 vim-airline/vim-airline
 vim-airline/vim-airline-themes
-vimlab/split-term.vim
-vimoutliner/vimoutliner
 vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc
 vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc-after
 vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc-syntax
 vim-ruby/vim-ruby
+vim-scripts/a.vim
 vim-scripts/align
 vim-scripts/argtextobj.vim
 vim-scripts/autoload_cscope.vim
-vim-scripts/a.vim
 vim-scripts/bats.vim
 vim-scripts/changeColorScheme.vim
 vim-scripts/Colour-Sampler-Pack
@@ -538,6 +536,8 @@ vim-scripts/wombat256.vim
 vim-scripts/YankRing.vim
 vim-syntastic/syntastic
 vim-utils/vim-husk
+vimlab/split-term.vim
+vimoutliner/vimoutliner
 vimwiki/vimwiki
 vito-c/jq.vim
 vmchale/dhall-vim