http://www.djx.com.au/blog/customizing-maya/ I believe these settings would go into Maya.env. Via the script editor, 'Echo all commands' can be turned on to get the names/arguments for the commands you want when you click on them. (since most non-scene based info doesn't normally show up there)
I had our tech artist set up a similar thing where my scene defaults to backface culled and wireframe on shaded it was some fancy shit though I have no idea how he did it. Killing people I use this script mapped to 6 which I can't live without. You might like it, texture mode with no lighting, I haven't looked at a…