htaccess mod_rewrite rules could be cleaner

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Following a discussion on wp-hackers (​http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2005-May/001083.html) it seems that the .htaccess mod_rewrite rules for pages could be cleaned up significantly by using a (page1|page2|page3|etc) syntax instead of having a new set of rules for each and every page. Example:

RewriteRule ^(page1|page2|page3)/trackback/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(page1|page2|page3)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(page1|page2|page3)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(page1|page2|page3)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(page1|page2|page3)/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L] 

Rewrite rules have been simplified a lot since this ticket was started.