These seem a bit too opinionated to me, mostly because of 'set noswapfile'. For me vim-sensible [1] has a more useful set of defaults (although more than five

These seem a bit too opinionated to me, mostly because of 'set noswapfile'. For me vim-sensible [1] has a more useful set of defaults (although more than five lines). Also, the readme of that project lists benefits of using a universal set of defaults. [1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible