Machine.MachineUI, is it interactive? and a mbnames question

[SamLT]

> On 2010/08/26 12:36 PM, SamLT wrote:
> >
> >    Hello everybody,
> >
> >    Is the Machine.MachineUI able to receive input in some way? I don't find
> >anything on this on the web. (like for example, 'sync now!', change the refresh
> >setting or just 'exit'?)
> >
> >    Also what's the proper way to stop offlineimap in the NonInteractive UIs? When
> >I interrupt it with ^C it doesn't look like it's exiting as properly as when I
> >type q in the Curses.Blinkenlights ui.
> >
> >    (by the way I only found 'q' in this UI is there other action avalaibles? I'm
> >sorry if I miss something in the documentation, please just point me in the
> >right direction)
> >
> >    And, last question for the moment, the only thing I've found about mbnames
> >are examples for mutt. is there others 'variables' available for the 'peritem'
> >line? (other than %(accountname) and %(foldername) I mean)
> >
> >    Thank you in advance,
> >
> >
> >    sam
> >
> >
> >
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 01:01:41PM +0200, James Stapley wrote:
>  Hi sam,
> 
> With regards to the noninteractive ui, I usually
> ps aux | grep offlineimap
> and
> kill
> the corresponding process number.
> 
> Not particularly elegant, but it works :) (in Ubuntu)
> 
> 

Thank you for your answer.

Well I'm not familiar with Python, but terminating on an exception may be a
clean exit afterall

As for the last question, about mbnames, it looks like, -from the source coce-,
that accountname and foldername are indeed the only special variables available
for this section.

(I still don't really understand the syntax '%(variable)s', but I guess it'll be
more clear once I read a little about Python)

I'll probably answer my own other questions by diving into the code, I'll do that.

Feel free to point me to the right direction though!


sam