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Hi, Often I have to switch between projects with different coding styles. This is hard. I see that you have the option to override the global formatting options per-project, but that is very cumbersome. What I suggest is: 1 - For each language, the ability to create many formatting profiles (to make it even better, the ability to create new profiles by copying an existing one, rather than start always from scratch) 2 - Globally there would be 'megaprofiles', each being a list of associations one-language -> one-per-programming-language-profile 3 - Projects would be changeably associated to a 'megaprofile' 4 - No more definitions for individual projects: if needed, duplicate a megaprofile, duplicate the specific profile one wants to change, and edit the duplicate Illustrating: - Given a system with the languages J, C and H (say, Java, CSS, HTML) - Where the user had 3 different profiles for Java, 2 for CSS and 1 for HTML - And the default megaprofile (mpX) was J1, C2 and H1 - Another profile (mpY) could be J3, C1 and H1 - J2 would be 'unused' but otherwise would be there - Project A would use mpX because no one ever changed it - Project B would use mpY - Project C needs J2 and C2, so the user creates mpZ by duplicating mpX, then changes mpZ to use J2 instead of J3 - Later on, the user sets mpZ as the default, and no existing project is affected (because the 'default' only matters at creation time), but new projects will be initialised pointing to mpZ I think this would work very well.
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