I have a custom, IDE-wide profile for Inspections in IntelliJ IDEA. I'm often creating new projects, and I want to use this profile with them by default.
I tried going to File > Other Settings > Default Settings... and changing Editor > Inspections > Profile to point to my new profile. But when I create a new project, it is still using the Project Default profile.
Is this setting broken? Is my understanding of default project/profile settings not correct?
Inspections from the profile you select as the default are copied to the project default profile when the new project is created. There is an open issue about that:
Your specific problem is described under ISSUE 5:
There doesn't seem to be a way to set a global profile as the default for new projects such that the project continues to use the global default. If on the default settings dialog I set my profile to "My Standard Inspections", when I create a new project, the settings I have in "{idea.home}/inspections/My Standard Inspections.xml" are copied to ".idea/inspections/Project_Default.xml". While I can understand this might be desired behavior for teams that want a standard inspection profile used for a project and for it to be shared via VCS, that is not the case for me (and my co-workers). I want a global profile that all my projects use such that as I tweak my inspection profile over time, all projects use the updated profile (as they are using a common global profile). This is the paradigm I've used since IDEA v3. But it's broken down recently because of the reworking of inspection profile management. While I could go in and change the inspection profile from "Project Default" to "My Standard Inspections" each and every time I create a new project, that is a real pain, and is error prone. I think there needs to be an option to select the behavior for the default profile setting to either "Use as a global profile" or "Copy to project default profile".
We've also created a separate issue for this problem, please follow for updates: