properly interpret initial_command as cmdsequence

This ensures the default initial command as given by the
`initial_command` config option will be interpreted as
command*line* as expected, and not as single command.
As a result, one can now use e.g.
  initial_command = search A ; search B

issue: #698

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/alot/init.py b/alot/init.py
index 5f8780ec..8c7a64ac 100755
--- a/alot/init.py
+++ b/alot/init.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ from alot.settings import settings
 from alot.settings.errors import ConfigError
 from alot.db.manager import DBManager
 from alot.ui import UI
-import alot.commands as commands
 from alot.commands import *
 from alot.commands import CommandParseError
 
@@ -174,17 +173,14 @@ def main():
             query = ' '.join(args.subOptions.args)
             cmdstring = 'search %s %s' % (args.subOptions.as_argparse_opts(),
                                           query)
-            cmd = commands.commandfactory(cmdstring, 'global')
         elif args.subCommand == 'compose':
             cmdstring = 'compose %s' % args.subOptions.as_argparse_opts()
             if args.subOptions.rest is not None:
                 cmdstring += ' ' + args.subOptions.rest
-            cmd = commands.commandfactory(cmdstring, 'global')
         else:
-            default_commandline = settings.get('initial_command')
-            cmd = commands.commandfactory(default_commandline, 'global')
+            cmdstring = settings.get('initial_command')
     except CommandParseError, e:
         sys.exit(e)
 
     # set up and start interface
-    UI(dbman, cmd)
+    UI(dbman, cmdstring)
diff --git a/alot/ui.py b/alot/ui.py
index cc578725..e9624e54 100644
--- a/alot/ui.py
+++ b/alot/ui.py
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ class UI(object):
     responsible for opening, closing and focussing buffers.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, dbman, initialcmd):
+    def __init__(self, dbman, initialcmdline):
         """
         :param dbman: :class:`~alot.db.DBManager`
-        :param initialcmd: commandline applied after setting up interface
-        :type initialcmd: str
+        :param initialcmdline: commandline applied after setting up interface
+        :type initialcmdline: str
         :param colourmode: determines which theme to chose
         :type colourmode: int in [1,16,256]
         """
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class UI(object):
         self.mainloop.screen.set_terminal_properties(colors=colourmode)
 
         logging.debug('fire first command')
-        self.apply_command(initialcmd)
+        self.apply_commandline(initialcmdline)
 
         # start urwids mainloop
         self.mainloop.run()