Would there be any interest in a Windows-based GUI application to edit config files? As a side effect of my work on the blueprint tools I have made a more comprehensive programming library for reading ECF files, more comprehensive than the old one I made, that is. It is possible to use this upgraded library to make a more user-friendly "ECF Lab" if the interest is there. Notepad++ (or my personal favourite Emacs) is fun and all but very accepting of errors... Let me know if you want it and I'll consider making it.
If you do end up making this, might I suggest the ability to compute various values (mass, volume, input energy, HP, etc) recursively from item recipes? A lot of the pain in working with the config file lies in how cumbersome it is to make large-scale changes. Also, the ability for it to dump config files into more regularized formats (JSON or python dictionaries) and vice versa would be of immense utility .
