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...It flips on widely appreciated options to improve search, indentation, buffers, and UI cues so a fresh Vim becomes productive immediately. The philosophy is conservative: only enable settings that are broadly beneficial and unlikely to surprise seasoned users. It reduces the friction of onboarding to Vim by removing early paper cuts, letting you add personal preferences later from a sane baseline. The project acts as a living distillation of community wisdom about defaults that stand the test of time. By shipping just sensible toggles, it remains unobtrusive and easy to adopt in any dotfiles setup.

import_from_github_com is a playful yet practical experiment that lets you import Python modules directly from GitHub using an import-like mechanism. The idea is to remove the friction of “clone → install → import” when you just want to try out a single file or small repo. It hooks into Python’s import machinery so that when you reference a GitHub path, it fetches the code, stores it locally (often with caching), and makes it importable in the current environment. This is helpful for prototyping, teaching, or quickly exploring other people’s utilities without polluting your global site-packages. ...