[Vimperator] [ANNOUNCEMENT] 0.5.3 released

[Martin Stubenschrott]

Hi all (currently 137 subscribed members) :)

as Christmas is coming, i thought to release a new version of
vimperator, because i have received so many nice donations that i want
to keep my promise for a new vimperator version this year :)

Nothing extraordniarily big, but it just should work better than 0.5.2:

	* IMPORTANT! options are no longer automatically stored - use the
	  ~/.vimperatorrc file instead for persistent options
	* :tabnext and :tabprevious now accept an argument
	* the count to gT now specifies a relative tab motion like Vim
	* new :pa[geinfo] command, and ctrl-g and g,ctrl-g mappings (thanks Marco Candrian)
	* added new :mkvimperatorrc command
	* remove :redraw and Ctrl-L commands as they rely on FF3 features
	* :ls, :history and :bmarks output is now hyperlinked
	* new gb and gB mappings to repeat the last :buffer[!] command,
	* :q doesn't close the whole browser, if there are more than one windows
	* new :winclose command
	* b calls :buffer! now instead of :buffer
	* [+], [-] and [+-] in the statusline, whether we can go back, forward, or both
	* :set showtabline now finally works as expected for all values
	* many other small bug fixes

However, there is ONE BIG CHANGE: Options are NOT anymore saved
automatically. While this was a tough decision, we thought it makes for
a better experience to put your beloved options in your ~/.vimperaotrrc
(we even support a new :mkvimperatorrc command for that), and now you
can change options like 'guioptions' temporarily just for the current
session.

While this changelog might not sound so impressive for a 2-month
development cycle, there were already massive changes for the
next-generation vimperator (0.6), which will however require Firefox3.
Changes for that include things like preliminary macro support, :imap,
:abbreviation support, external editor support, caret mode, a vim-mode
for text-fields, etc.
We just to polish those features, but then 0.6 will be so impressive, we
could even call it 1.0 :)

At this point I want to say thank you again for all the Donators, which
kept motivating me coding more. 

Have a nice christmas and see you next year!

--
Martin

PS: I want to also say a big thank you to Doug Kearns, as he backported
so many things from 0.6, without him 0.5.3 would still be an illusion.

PPS: Also a big thank you to Marco Candian which learnt Vimperator
development so quickly and provided so many nice patches for 0.6 (like
an upcoming :autocommand support).