At Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:12:27 -0400,
Glenn Morris wrote:
> 
> 
> Just to comment that there is also ange-ftp-parse-netrc, which looks
> like it might handle newlines. I don't know why Emacs needs this and
> also netrc-parse (and also tramp-parse-netrc).

And, in fact, it seems my problem with auth-source-netrc-parse, which
url.el uses.

So: netrc-parse, tramp-parse-netrc, and auth-source-netrc-parse all do
not handle linefeeds in ~/.netrc files.

ange-ftp-parse-netrc, on the other hand, does.

For what it’s worth, I didn’t create a ~/.netrc file myself with
linefeeds; it was created for me by other software.

best, Erik