bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Today I typed DEL after yanking some text and typing C-x C-x to go to
>> the beginning of it.  DEL surprised me by deleting the region.
>
> I think most people now agree that `C-x C-x' shouldn't activate the
> region when transient-mark-mode is switched on, but nobody has actually
> altered that function to stop doing this.

I did not follow, but how should then the region be activated if
transient-mark-mode is on?