diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix
index e2715b1499a..2a80f5d42ad 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ composableDerivation {
     multibyteSupport = config.vim.multibyte or false;
     cscopeSupport    = config.vim.cscope or true;
     netbeansSupport  = config.netbeans or true; # eg envim is using it
+    ximSupport       = config.vim.xim or false;
 
     # by default, compile with darwin support if we're compiling on darwin, but
     # allow this to be disabled by setting config.vim.darwin to false