bug#45617: <query-replace> loses the edit region. Works in 23.3, broke in 26.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: bobfloyd@comcast.net,  45617@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:46:05 +0200
> 
> >> The question we need to answer: should this fix affect all other uses
> >> of the minibuffer?  So for any command that operates on the active region
> >> and asks its arguments from the minibuffer, when you copy the text
> >> from the original buffer to the minibuffer and thus change its region,
> >> should quitting the minibuffer restore the original region for
> >> all such commands?  This means restoring the original mark and point.
> >
> > I think the answer is YES, especially if we did behave like that in
> > the distant past.
> 
> Interesting, this means this behavior was changed intentionally
> in a recent version?

AFAICT, it did change, but only slightly.