diff --git a/docs/wip-plugins.md b/docs/wip-plugins.md
index cb3da42d2..16b582403 100644
--- a/docs/wip-plugins.md
+++ b/docs/wip-plugins.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Chatterino Plugins dir/
     └── info.json
 ```
 
-`init.lua` will be the file loaded when the plugin is enabled. You may load other files using [`execfile` global function](#execfilefilename=).
+`init.lua` will be the file loaded when the plugin is enabled. You may load other files using [`import` global function](#importfilename=).
 
 `info.json` contains metadata about the plugin, like its name, description,
 authors, homepage link, tags, version, license name. The version field **must**
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ It achieves this by forcing all inputs to be encoded with `UTF-8`.
 
 See [official documentation](https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#pdf-load)
 
-#### `execfile(filename)`
+#### `import(filename)`
 
 This function mimics Lua's `dofile` however relative paths are relative to your plugin's directory.
 You are restricted to loading files in your plugin's directory. You cannot load files with bytecode inside.
@@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ You are restricted to loading files in your plugin's directory. You cannot load
 Example:
 
 ```lua
-execfile("stuff.lua") -- executes Plugins/name/stuff.lua
-execfile("./stuff.lua") -- executes Plugins/name/stuff.lua
-execfile("../stuff.lua") -- tries to load Plugins/stuff.lua and errors
-execfile("luac.out") -- tried to load Plugins/name/luac.out and errors because it contains non-utf8 data
+import("stuff.lua") -- executes Plugins/name/stuff.lua
+import("./stuff.lua") -- executes Plugins/name/stuff.lua
+import("../stuff.lua") -- tries to load Plugins/stuff.lua and errors
+import("luac.out") -- tried to load Plugins/name/luac.out and errors because it contains non-utf8 data
 ```
 
 #### `print(Args...)`
diff --git a/src/controllers/plugins/LuaAPI.cpp b/src/controllers/plugins/LuaAPI.cpp
index b6ba100db..2e9d660ff 100644
--- a/src/controllers/plugins/LuaAPI.cpp
+++ b/src/controllers/plugins/LuaAPI.cpp
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ int g_load(lua_State *L)
 #    endif
 }
 
-int g_dofile(lua_State *L)
+int g_import(lua_State *L)
 {
     auto countArgs = lua_gettop(L);
     // Lua allows dofile() which loads from stdin, but this is very useless in our case
diff --git a/src/controllers/plugins/LuaAPI.hpp b/src/controllers/plugins/LuaAPI.hpp
index 859a6a67b..5075bec6c 100644
--- a/src/controllers/plugins/LuaAPI.hpp
+++ b/src/controllers/plugins/LuaAPI.hpp
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ int g_load(lua_State *L);
 int g_print(lua_State *L);
 
 // this one is exposed as execfile
-int g_dofile(lua_State *L);
+int g_import(lua_State *L);
 // NOLINTEND(readability-identifier-naming)
 
 // Exposed as c2.LogLevel
diff --git a/src/controllers/plugins/PluginController.cpp b/src/controllers/plugins/PluginController.cpp
index 62c3be8f7..1e59f51ae 100644
--- a/src/controllers/plugins/PluginController.cpp
+++ b/src/controllers/plugins/PluginController.cpp
@@ -182,11 +182,10 @@ void PluginController::openLibrariesFor(lua_State *L,
     // NOLINTNEXTLINE(*-avoid-c-arrays)
     static const luaL_Reg replacementFuncs[] = {
         {"load", lua::api::g_load},
-
-        // chatterino dofile is way more similar to require() than dofile()
-        {"execfile", lua::api::g_dofile},
-
         {"print", lua::api::g_print},
+
+        // This function replaces both `dofile` and `require`, see docs/wip-plugins.md for more info
+        {"import", lua::api::g_import},
         {nullptr, nullptr},
     };
     luaL_setfuncs(L, replacementFuncs, 0);