access notmuch's config via settings.notmuchconfig

This adds a comdline option "-n" to specify the location of
notmuch's config file and splits the CustomConfigparser

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/alot/init.py b/alot/init.py
index 689e677d..e5a13a5b 100755
--- a/alot/init.py
+++ b/alot/init.py
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ def parse_args():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
     parser.add_argument('-c', dest='configfile',
                         default='~/.alot.rc',
-                        help='config file')
+                        help='alot\'s config file')
+    parser.add_argument('-n', dest='notmuchconfigfile',
+                        default='~/.notmuch-config',
+                        help='notmuch\'s config file')
     parser.add_argument('-C', dest='colours',
                         type=int,
                         choices=[1, 16, 256],
@@ -61,6 +64,8 @@ def main():
     #read config file
     configfilename = os.path.expanduser(args.configfile)
     settings.config.read(configfilename)
+    notmuchfile = os.path.expanduser(args.notmuchconfigfile)
+    settings.notmuchconfig.read(notmuchfile)
     settings.hooks.setup(settings.config.get('general', 'hooksfile'))
 
     # setup logging
diff --git a/alot/settings.py b/alot/settings.py
index 51a25827..b373016c 100644
--- a/alot/settings.py
+++ b/alot/settings.py
@@ -269,11 +269,16 @@ DEFAULTS = {
     }
 }
 
+NOTMUCH_DEFAULTS = {
+    'maildir': {
+        'synchronize_flags': 'False',
+    },
+}
 
-class CustomConfigParser(SafeConfigParser):
+
+class DefaultsConfigParser(SafeConfigParser):
     def __init__(self, defaults):
         self.defaults = defaults
-        self.hooks = None
         SafeConfigParser.__init__(self)
         self.optionxform = lambda x: x
         for sec in defaults.keys():
@@ -299,6 +304,11 @@ class CustomConfigParser(SafeConfigParser):
         value = self.get(section, option, **kwargs)
         return [s.strip() for s in value.split(',')]
 
+class AlotConfigParser(DefaultsConfigParser):
+    def __init__(self, defaults):
+        DefaultsConfigParser.__init__(self, defaults)
+        self.hooks = None
+
     def read(self, file):
         if not os.path.isfile(file):
             return
@@ -388,7 +398,8 @@ class HookManager:
         return f
 
 
-config = CustomConfigParser(DEFAULTS)
+config = AlotConfigParser(DEFAULTS)
+notmuchconfig = DefaultsConfigParser(NOTMUCH_DEFAULTS)
 hooks = HookManager()
 mailcaps = mailcap.getcaps()