Self-followup: > This was requested years ago > (http://savannah.nongnu.org/support/index.php?106712) but the request > was closed without explanation. I posted a query there asking about > this.
This sr was (remarkably quickly) reopened, so you can add your voice there. (Savannah has a voting mechanism, too, but it seems pretty underutilized: that sr has only one vote despite multiple people posting comments in support of the request.)