diff --git a/profiles/arch/hppa/use.stable.mask b/profiles/arch/hppa/use.stable.mask
index a7fb552941ba7..45efb9ed5cf80 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/hppa/use.stable.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/hppa/use.stable.mask
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 # This file requires eapi 5 or later. New entries go on top.
 # Please use the same syntax as in use.mask
 
+# Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de> (2020-04-05)
+# app-editors/{,g}vim has no stable keywords
+vim-syntax
+
 # Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de> (2020-04-05)
 # app-editors/{,x}emacs has no stable keywords
 emacs