Talk about spaces in the netrc file.

diff --git a/texi/ChangeLog b/texi/ChangeLog
index 4a10be6..10efc8f 100644 (file)
--- a/texi/ChangeLog
+++ b/texi/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2011-02-11  Teodor Zlatanov  <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 
        * auth.texi (Overview, Help for users, Help for developers): Update docs.
+       (Help for users): Talk about spaces.
 
 2011-02-05  Teodor Zlatanov  <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 

diff --git a/texi/auth.texi b/texi/auth.texi
index 1b6d430..62a958d 100644 (file)
--- a/texi/auth.texi
+++ b/texi/auth.texi
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ The @code{user} is the user name.  It's known as @var{:user} in
 @code{auth-source-search} queries.  You can also use @code{login} and
 @code{account}.
 
+Spaces are always OK as far as auth-source is concerned (but other
+programs may not like them).  Just put the data in quotes, escaping
+quotes as you'd expect with @code{\}.
+
 All these are optional.  You could just say (but we don't recommend
 it, we're just showing that it's possible)