Hi Ken Where do you set the value of url in the second function? One big enhancement shall be setting the coding system of the temp buffer, based on the charset of the html page. Regards, Denny On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:46 AM, ken wrote: > Lennart suggested I use a different defun, url-copy-file. I tried that > instead, but it didn't work. But then I went back to my original code, > moved a single parenthesis and... it worked... mostly. Here's the code: > > ------------------------ start --------------------------- > load url.el > > (defun www-edit-web-page (url) > "Retrieve web page and load into new buffer for editing. > Automatically insert after tag URL, appropriately html-tagged URL." > (interactive "sLoad URL: ") > (with-temp-buffer (url-retrieve url 'edit-web-page))) > > > (defun edit-web-page (status) > "Switch to the buffer returned by `url-retreive'. > The buffer should contain the web page sent by the server." > (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer)) > (goto-char 0) > (re-search-forward "" nil t) ;go to end of tag. > ;insert URL into page > (insert "\n

From: " url "\n

\n\n")) > > ------------------------ ende --------------------------- > > This properly fetches the web page and loads it into a new, unsaved > buffer (exactly what I want), but the last line in the second defun > doesn't execute. The error messages are telling me that edit-web-page > doesn't know the value of "url". So how do I pass this variable-- with > its assignment from www-edit-web-page to edit-web-page? (I have a > guess, but i'm more a C/bash/blah/blah/blah guy, so elisp is a bit > mysterious.) > > > > -- Thanks & Regards Denny Zhang