Thanks, Thamer. It works. Below is the code snippet. Well, I still have an encoding problem. To get the title of "http://www.baidu.com", the title we get is displayed as unrecognizable codes. I have tried to encode it, in the way of "(setq web_title_str (encode-coding-string web_title_str 'utf-8-dos))", but it fails. Since I am a newbie for emacs encoding, can you please help me to point what the problem is? ;; -------------------------- separator -------------------------- (defun get-page-title() "Get title of web page, whose url can be found in current line" (interactive) ;; Get url from current line (copy-region-as-kill (re-search-backward "^") (re-search-forward "$")) (setq url (substring-no-properties (current-kill 0))) ;; Get title of web page, with the help of functions in url.el (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url) (goto-char 0) (re-search-forward "\\(.*\\)<[/]title>" nil t 1) (setq web_title_str (match-string 1))) (setq web_title_str (encode-coding-string web_title_str 'utf-8-dos)) ;; Insert the title in the next line (reindent-then-newline-and-indent) (insert web_title_str) ) On 7/28/10, Thamer Mahmoud <thamer.mahmoud@gmail.com> wrote: > > filebat Mark <filebat.mark@gmail.com> writes: > > > Such as, given "http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Git", we will get the > title > > of this web page, which is "EmacsWiki: Git:". > > > > Function of w3m-current-title is quite close, but a standalone lisp > function > > is much preferred. > > > Using the url.el package, > > (defun www-get-page-title (url) > (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url) > (goto-char 0) > (re-search-forward "<title>\\(.*\\)<[/]title>" nil t 1) > (match-string 1))) > > (www-get-page-title "http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Git") > => "EmacsWiki: Git" > > hth, > > Thamer > > > -- Thanks & Regards Denny Zhang