Proposal to improve management of code style settings

Hi all,

I am quite happy with IntelliJ 9, but would like to point out a less useful part.

I am working for custom projects with my own style settings. There are a number of those projects. For one customer, I work in 3 different projects. They share the same style settings. Then I fixed things in the Tapestry Open Source projects. I have two projects there for different branches.

In fact I have 3 different style guides, each of them applied to more than one project. With IntelliJ, I can have only one global style or a project style.
I can run easily into an error, if I choose another global style, because it will be set for all projects. I need to remember this when opening a project which requires a different style.
If I don't want to risk bad formatting, then I have to use a per project setting. This is equivalent to copying a style guide once to a project. If I change the style guide, then I have to copy it again to all projects which use this style guide.

In my opinion, the following approach is more useful.
I can create multiple global style settings. I can define a default global style setting to be used for new projects. I can assign any global style setting to a project. Different projects can have different global style settings.
If I want to change the styles only for a project, I can copy the settings to the project and edit them only for the project. I can create a global style setting from the project settings.

What do you think?

Best Regards / Viele Grüße

Sebastian Hennebrueder
http://www.laliluna.de