diff --git a/scripts/vim/ftdetect/task.vim b/scripts/vim/ftdetect/task.vim
index 23ac0500c..e9840a455 100644
--- a/scripts/vim/ftdetect/task.vim
+++ b/scripts/vim/ftdetect/task.vim
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ au BufRead,BufNewFile backlog.data	set filetype=javascript
 
 " Taskwarrior configuration file
 au BufRead,BufNewFile .taskrc				set filetype=taskrc
+au BufRead,BufNewFile taskrc				set filetype=taskrc
 
 " Taskwarrior handling of 'task 42 edit'
 au BufRead,BufNewFile *.task				set filetype=taskedit