Is spellcheck a killer feature that attracts people to word processors? I like Intellisense in Visual Studio because since what I’m writing is meant to be interpreted by a computer according to some well-defined rules, having some background thread attempt to parse my code using presumably the same rules lets me “live in the language” while I’m coding. If I’m writing something to be interpreted by humans, there are no precise rules and I’d prefer to be left alone to spell words however I like in order to achieve whatever effect I’m going for, thus I always turn off any spellcheck, grammar check, etc. features in any word processor I use. But this is also perhaps a reason word processors in general aren’t terribly attractive to me and I find myself drawn to just using general-purpose text editors such as emacs, together with text-based typesetting programs like TeX.
