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That patch is around for a long time. Should I work on it,
fixing that problem, and apply it? Do you agree with the
feature inclusion?

I remember that the main reason for implementing this is
because it is hard to achieve the same results without it.
You have to rewrite the whole match twice inside an or'ed group
(e.g. "(<... match email ...>|... match email ...)").