Allow designating certain tags as "property" tags.

Those are tags like attachment, signed, sent, etc., which are set
automatically based on message properties and are typically not changed
manually.

Such designated tags are not affected by the retag operation.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/alot/commands/common.py b/alot/commands/common.py
index 8280a5c0..4914933c 100644
--- a/alot/commands/common.py
+++ b/alot/commands/common.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from . import Command
 
 from .globals import PromptCommand
 
+from ..settings.const import settings
 
 class RetagPromptCommand(Command):
 
@@ -18,13 +19,14 @@ class RetagPromptCommand(Command):
         item = get_selected_item()
         if not item:
             return
-        tags = []
-        for tag in item.get_tags():
-            if ' ' in tag:
-                tags.append('"%s"' % tag)
-            # skip empty tags
-            elif tag:
-                tags.append(tag)
-        initial_tagstring = ','.join(sorted(tags)) + ','
+
+        exclude_tags = frozenset(settings.get('property_tags'))
+        tags = map(lambda x: ("%s" % x) if ' ' in x else x,
+                   item.get_tags() - exclude_tags)
+
+        initial_tagstring = ','.join(sorted(tags))
+        if initial_tagstring:
+            initial_tagstring += ','
+
         r = await ui.apply_command(PromptCommand('retag ' + initial_tagstring))
         return r