Comment 1 for bug 662876

Thank you for your bug report. There's a upstream bug report about this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620191 Apparently the change was intentional (because "E" can now be a variable and having a second meaning would be ambiguous), see this IRC discussion: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/06/01/%23ubuntu-desktop.html

I'm setting the bug to confirmed, I personally think your use case is widespread enough to treat "E" special.