Subject: bug#22081: 24.5; netrc.el fails parsing authinfo items spread over multiple lines

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 13:28:24 -0500

Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> (The netrc.el `netrc-parse' code is not actively used nowadays in Emacs,

Just to point out that there are even more functions for netrc parsing
in Emacs, as pointed out three years ago in http://debbugs.gnu.org/12511
(of which this report is a duplicate).
At the time it seemed to me that ange-ftp-parse-netrc looked
like it might handle newlines.