Re: Retrieve a web page into buffer and insert some text into it.

[Teemu Likonen]

* 2010-07-31 00:51 (+0800), filebat Mark wrote:

> Does the below solve your problem?

I don't know but I'll comment your code in general.

> (defun match-web-body()
>   (interactive)
>    (setq case-fold-search t);;Make searches case insensitive
>    (goto-char 0)
>    (re-search-forward "\\(< *\n* *body\n* +fgcolor=\".*\" *\n*>\\)" nil t 1)
>    (setq match_str (match-string 1))
>    (message match_str)
> )

If you want to set case-fold-search or other state-changing variable for
certain operation create a local binding for the variable, do not assign
new value to the existing binding. In other words, do not do this:

    (setq case-fold-search t)
    (re-search-forward ...)

Do this instead:

    (let ((case-fold-search t))
      (re-search-forward ...))

Also, do not introduce new global variables in functions like you did
here:

>    (setq match_str (match-string 1))
>    (message match_str)

In that case there is no need for the variable at all. It could be
written like this:

    (message "%s" (match-string 1))

But even if you needed a variable you shouldn't introduce it with SETQ
but create a local binding with LET:

    (let ((match-str (match-string 1)))
      (message "%s" match-str)
      ;; Plus other uses of the variable
      )

In short, keep things local.