> but it's not like your .vimrc follows you along to those remote servers anyways so things would be different anyways working on a server?
That's why I don't really customize vim at all, or make fancy macros, or any of that. I work on a half-dozen different machines and OSes every week, I can't be bothered to customize those environments just to lose them every time I re-format.
You could just make config downloads automatic on all your servers, see my comment below.
Doing this - not using customizations - means you're forfeiting 70%-90% of functionality and power of those tools. I don't think it's smart, but well, it is your choice.
