Questions[dotfiles](server)

I have a few servers that I have personal accounts on, I have created an SVN repository to contain my home directory so that I can manage my dotfiles across these servers, which I'm finding works very well and makes it easy for me to track the changes I make (which previously would get lost/overwritten very easily).

The new problem I face is that at work I'm now forced to share one of two accounts (deploy/root) with a bunch of coworkers, and as a result I can't set too much in the way of global options.

Is there anything I can do to have the other end see my .vimrc in that session while I'm logged in (or some kludge and $VIMRC setting that makes vim load my local one?) vim is the main thing but it'd be nice to extend the principle to others as well.

Let's say you have your favorite settings with zsh, vim, screen, etc., behaving the way you want on some boxes.

What is the best way to apply these settings / environments to a new server? Assuming all the necessary software is installed on the same distro.

I'm cleaning up some files that have been handled by Mac OS X. This is also the destination for FTP transfers. I know about .DS_Store files. However I'm seeing some ._XXXX files, ie. files that are prefixed with a dot and an underscore. Is that some sort of Mac OS X backup / transfer file? Where would they come from?

At the very least I always uncomment "syntax on" in /etc/vim/vimrc

Basically like some of my own that I've posted below. I'm looking for added functionality to the programme 'screen'. At the very least have a look at the last line for a fantastic 'menu bar' at the bottom of a screen session.

## gyaresu's .screenrc 2008-03-25
# http://delicious.com/search?p=screenrc

# Don't display the copyright page
startup_message off

# tab-completion flash in heading bar
vbell off

# keep scrollback n lines
defscrollback 1000

# Doesn't fix scrollback problem on xterm because if you scroll back
# all you see is the other terminals history.
# termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@

# These will let you use 
bind -c selectHighs 0 select 10 #these three commands are 
bind -c selectHighs 1 select 11 #added to the command-class
bind -c selectHighs 2 select 12 #selectHighs
bind -c selectHighs 3 select 13
bind -c selectHighs 4 select 14
bind -c selectHighs 5 select 15


bind - command -c selectHighs   #bind the hyphen to 
                                #command-class selectHighs 


screen -t rtorrent  0   rtorrent    
#screen -t tunes        1   ncmpc --host=192.168.1.4 --port=6600 #was for connecting to MPD music server.
screen -t stuff     1
screen -t irssi     2   irssi
screen -t dancing   4       
screen -t python    5   python
screen -t giantfriend   6   these_are_ssh_to_server_scripts.sh
screen -t computerrescue    7   these_are_ssh_to_server_scripts.sh
screen -t BMon      8   bmon -p eth0
screen -t htop      9   htop
screen -t hellanzb  10  hellanzb
screen -t watching  3   
#screen -t interactive.fiction  8
#screen -t hellahella   8   paster serve --daemon  /home/gyaresu/downloads/hellahella/hella.ini 

shelltitle "$ |bash"

# THIS IS THE PRETTY BIT
#change the hardstatus settings to give an window list at the bottom of the                                                                        
##screen, with the time and date and with the current window highlighted                                                                            
hardstatus             alwayslastline                                                                                                                          
#hardstatus string '%{= mK}%-Lw%{= KW}%50>%n%f* %t%{= mK}%+Lw%< %{= kG}%-=%D %d %M %Y %c:%s%{-}'
hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %d/%m %{W}%c %{g}]'