bug#28785: 27.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a mode for .netrc and .authinfo

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

I thought I'd take a what at this, but if I remember correctly, the
consensus on emacs-devel was that this mode should just call
prettify-symbols-mode.

But looking at that mode, it seems like it doesn't really work on
regexps, and doesn't allow translating to strings?  It just takes
literal strings and displays is as a char?

That doesn't work for .authinfo, since the stuff we want to hide is,
like, "\bbpassword [^ ]+" or something...

Does anybody remember whether this really was the conclusion, or whether
there's another framework for hiding stuff that should be used?

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