This is the same issue as https://www.drupal.org/node/1252178 for D8. This request is not simply in order to bring us in feature parity with D8 - it's been mentioned in various issues like #189, #214, #801 and latest in #988. It was listed in #211 but dropped as N/A back then. Reconsider?
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1009
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I am withdrawing my question for the following reason: https://forum.backdropcms.org/comment/8960#comment-8960
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