When you are editing some configuration, you are testing that the change works, so the typo should be spotted at some point, no? You can make your program comp

When you are editing some configuration, you are testing that the change works, so the typo should be spotted at some point, no? You can make your program complain that the field is unknown too. Personally I copy paste everything and type few things anyway, but a way to handle this is to provide an example config file with everything commented out from which you can start. I quite like this way of doing things.