re-search-forward always finds the same link

[Christoph Conrad]

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I have written the following function. It fetches a page from the web.
In that page are links to archive pages, which should also be fetched,
and appended to the buffer. The problem: re-search-forward always
matches the same archive link, as if it would be start again from
beginning-of-buffer.

(defun advaita-all()
  (interactive)
  (with-temp-buffer
    ;; get base page
    (shell-command
     "lynx -dump http://advaitavedantameditations.blogspot.com/";
     (current-buffer))

    (let ((eob (save-excursion (end-of-buffer) (point))))
      ;; append to base page all archive pages that are referenced in
      ;; the base page
      (while (re-search-forward " \\(http://.*_archive.html$\\)" eob t)
        (let ((link (match-string 1)))
          (save-excursion
            (message (concat "Processing link: " link))
            (end-of-buffer)
            (shell-command (concat "lynx -dump " link) (current-buffer)))))

      (write-region (point-min) (point-max) "~/Privat/advaita-all.txt"))))


Changing the two lines

 ;; (end-of-buffer)
 ;; (shell-command (concat "lynx -dump " link) (current-buffer)))))
 (goto-char (point-max))
 (insert (shell-command-to-string (concat "lynx -dump " link))))))

and it works.


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