jEdit has a SpellCheck module that depends on GNU Aspell. So I need to install Aspell, right?

The Apsell page has a link to Windows binaries—for the 0.50 version, dated 2002. For version 0.60, you need to build your own, using the Visual C++ version of the code (since that is how one compiles software on Windows). This is available as a Zip file, containing a discouraging README file that says that it is full of changes not approved of by the Apsell author or something. It also does not compile on Visual Studio .Net 2003 because it wants std::vector to have a member size_type which apparently it does not. This is odd, considering that size_type not only is in the STL specs, it is also in the source code of the vector class. What gives?

You know what I wish? I wish that Microsoft Windows had a built-in spell-checking service the way Mac OS X does.