diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py
index 7af126f36507..97e0dda3b8dc 100755
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py
@@ -31,17 +31,19 @@ import git
 log = logging.getLogger()
 
 sh = logging.StreamHandler()
-formatter = logging.Formatter('%(name)s:%(levelname)s: %(message)s')
+formatter = logging.Formatter("%(name)s:%(levelname)s: %(message)s")
 sh.setFormatter(formatter)
 log.addHandler(sh)
 
 # Import plugin update library from maintainers/scripts/pluginupdate.py
 ROOT = Path(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe()))))
 # Ideally, ROOT.(parent^5) points to root of Nixpkgs official tree
-sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(ROOT.parent.parent.parent.parent.parent, "maintainers", "scripts"))
+sys.path.insert(
+    0, os.path.join(ROOT.parent.parent.parent.parent.parent, "maintainers", "scripts")
+)
 import pluginupdate
 from pluginupdate import run_nix_expr, PluginDesc
-
+nvim_treesitter = importlib.import_module("treesitter")
 
 
 GET_PLUGINS_LUA = """
@@ -52,11 +54,12 @@ HEADER = (
     "# GENERATED by ./pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py. Do not edit!"
 )
 
+
 def isNeovimPlugin(plug: pluginupdate.Plugin) -> bool:
-    '''
+    """
     Whether it's a neovim-only plugin
     We can check if it's available in lua packages
-    '''
+    """
     global luaPlugins
     if plug.normalized_name in luaPlugins:
         log.debug("%s is a neovim plugin", plug)
@@ -67,29 +70,38 @@ def isNeovimPlugin(plug: pluginupdate.Plugin) -> bool:
 class VimEditor(pluginupdate.Editor):
     nvim_treesitter_updated = False
 
-    def generate_nix(self, plugins: List[Tuple[PluginDesc, pluginupdate.Plugin]], outfile: str):
+    def generate_nix(
+        self, plugins: List[Tuple[PluginDesc, pluginupdate.Plugin]], outfile: str
+    ):
         sorted_plugins = sorted(plugins, key=lambda v: v[0].name.lower())
-        nvim_treesitter_rev = pluginupdate.run_nix_expr("(import <localpkgs> { }).vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.src.rev")
+        nvim_treesitter_rev = pluginupdate.run_nix_expr(
+            "(import <localpkgs> { }).vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.src.rev"
+        )
 
         with open(outfile, "w+") as f:
             f.write(HEADER)
-            f.write(textwrap.dedent("""
+            f.write(
+                textwrap.dedent(
+                    """
                 { lib, buildVimPlugin, buildNeovimPlugin, fetchFromGitHub, fetchgit }:
 
                 final: prev:
                 {
                 """
-            ))
+                )
+            )
             for pdesc, plugin in sorted_plugins:
                 content = self.plugin2nix(pdesc, plugin)
                 f.write(content)
-                if plugin.name == "nvim-treesitter" and plugin.commit != nvim_treesitter_rev:
+                if (
+                    plugin.name == "nvim-treesitter"
+                    and plugin.commit != nvim_treesitter_rev
+                ):
                     self.nvim_treesitter_updated = True
             f.write("\n}\n")
         print(f"updated {outfile}")
 
     def plugin2nix(self, pdesc: PluginDesc, plugin: pluginupdate.Plugin) -> str:
-
         repo = pdesc.repo
         isNeovim = isNeovimPlugin(plugin)
 
@@ -103,23 +115,30 @@ class VimEditor(pluginupdate.Editor):
   }};
 
 """.format(
-        buildFn="buildNeovimPlugin" if isNeovim else "buildVimPlugin", plugin=plugin, src_nix=src_nix, repo=repo)
+            buildFn="buildNeovimPlugin" if isNeovim else "buildVimPlugin",
+            plugin=plugin,
+            src_nix=src_nix,
+            repo=repo,
+        )
         log.debug(content)
         return content
 
-
     def update(self, args):
         pluginupdate.update_plugins(self, args)
 
         if self.nvim_treesitter_updated:
             print("updating nvim-treesitter grammars")
             nvim_treesitter_dir = ROOT.joinpath("nvim-treesitter")
-            subprocess.check_call([nvim_treesitter_dir.joinpath("update.py")])
+            # subprocess.check_call([nvim_treesitter_dir.joinpath("update.py")])
+            nvim_treesitter.update_grammars()
 
             if self.nixpkgs_repo:
                 index = self.nixpkgs_repo.index
                 for diff in index.diff(None):
-                    if diff.a_path == "pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/nvim-treesitter/generated.nix":
+                    if (
+                        diff.a_path
+                        == "pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/nvim-treesitter/generated.nix"
+                    ):
                         msg = "vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter: update grammars"
                         print(f"committing to nixpkgs: {msg}")
                         index.add([str(nvim_treesitter_dir.joinpath("generated.nix"))])
@@ -129,7 +148,6 @@ class VimEditor(pluginupdate.Editor):
 
 
 def main():
-
     global luaPlugins
     luaPlugins = run_nix_expr(GET_PLUGINS_LUA)