diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/overrides.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/overrides.nix
index 969481780e96..d480b97b0146 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/overrides.nix
@@ -884,6 +884,11 @@ self: super: {
         substituteInPlace lua/sniprun.lua --replace '@sniprun_bin@' ${sniprun-bin}
       '';
 
+      postInstall = ''
+        mkdir $out/doc
+        ln -s $out/docs/sniprun.txt $out/doc/sniprun.txt
+      '';
+
       propagatedBuildInputs = [ sniprun-bin ];
     };