It's months since release of Vim 7.0 (8 May, 06), and seems is a bit late to write in appreciation of it, but `Better late than never.'
Among a bunch of new exciting features, the built-in Spell Checker shines.
Well, plugins for spell checking were available earlier, but now it's built-in (TM). As I'm not a native English, I've a lot of typos is my writings, although most of them are grammatic but I've misspelled words there too. Thanks to the built-in spell checker in most Mail clients (specially in my favorite, Sylpheed) I've less problems there, in my e-communications, and thanks to Firefox 2 built-in Spell Checker I've even less in writing blog posts or commenting on other' ones. But what about the rest of life?
When I'm writing Homework, Articles or anything, I need a live Spell Checker environment too. Well OOo is there and we all like it but that's heavy to load for such tasks on my poor box, and by the way I prefer to write a dirty draft with 80 characters line width, unformatted in plain text and in a terminal based editor (sorry OOo, but you can't do this).
Thanks Bram, and Happy Vimming!