diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix
index a1a9b5e1135..597799c0268 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix
@@ -46,8 +46,14 @@ composableDerivation {} {
       ;
 
   cfg = {
-    pythonSupport = true;
-    ftNixSupport = true; # add .nix filetype detection and minimal syntax highlighting support
+    pythonSupport    = getConfig [ "vim" "python" ] true;
+    darwinSupport    = getConfig [ "vim" "darwin" ] false;
+    nlsSupport       = getConfig [ "vim" "nls" ] false;
+    tclSupport       = getConfig [ "vim" "tcl" ] false;
+    multibyteSupport = getConfig [ "vim" "multibyte" ] false;
+    cscopeSupport    = getConfig [ "vim" "cscope" ] false;
+    # add .nix filetype detection and minimal syntax highlighting support
+    ftNixSupport     = getConfig [ "vim" "ftNix" ] true;
   };
 
   #--enable-gui=OPTS     X11 GUI default=auto OPTS=auto/no/gtk/gtk2/gnome/gnome2/motif/athena/neXtaw/photon/carbon
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2fb30ad7d7e..813043027a1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6196,7 +6196,8 @@ let
   vimHugeX = vim_configurable;
 
   vim_configurable = import ../applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix {
-    inherit (pkgs) fetchurl stdenv ncurses pkgconfig gettext composableDerivation lib;
+    inherit (pkgs) fetchurl stdenv ncurses pkgconfig gettext composableDerivation lib
+      getConfig;
     inherit (pkgs.xlibs) libX11 libXext libSM libXpm
         libXt libXaw libXau libXmu libICE;
     inherit (pkgs.gtkLibs) glib gtk;