mark deactivated when it should not be

[Jeff Dwork]

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of Mon Jul 17 2000 on tesla
configured using `configure  --prefix=/tool/pandora/.package/emacs-20.7 
--with-x-toolkit=athena --with-pop --with-gcc --sharedstatedir=/tmp'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Why does this inactivate the mark?  If transient-mark-mode is off, the
mark remains active.

emacs -q -no-site-file
in *scratch* buffer do:

(transient-mark-mode t)C-x C-e C-SPC
(save-excursion (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "*argh*"))
  (insert "fook"))C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-e

;highlight goes on ......^
;highlight goes off .....................^

Another case:

(transient-mark-mode t)C-x C-e
C-SPC C-h v mark-active C-h v mark-active

;reports t ...........^
;reports nil ...........................^

Even though the *scratch* buffer is unchanged.

Thanks,
Jeff
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