diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/wrapper.nix
index 4fa666bc787e..2a0d60ce5a79 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/wrapper.nix
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ let
     finalMakeWrapperArgs =
       [ "${neovim}/bin/nvim" "${placeholder "out"}/bin/nvim" ]
       ++ [ "--set" "NVIM_SYSTEM_RPLUGIN_MANIFEST" "${placeholder "out"}/rplugin.vim" ]
-      ++ optionals wrapRc [ "--add-flags" "--clean" "--add-flags" "-u ${writeText "init.vim" neovimRcContent}" ]
+      ++ optionals wrapRc [ "--add-flags" "-u ${writeText "init.vim" neovimRcContent}" ]
       ;
   in
   assert withPython2 -> throw "Python2 support has been removed from the neovim wrapper, please remove withPython2 and python2Env.";