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

[Bob Floyd]

Hi Eli,

I already had the NEWS.24 changes in my .emacs file! So that is not the cause 
of this issue.

You do agree this is a bug - that <query-replace> fails, correct?

Thanks for your quick reply.
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:eliz@gnu.org] 
Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2021 6:48 AM
To: Bob Floyd
Cc: 45617@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45617: <query-replace> loses the edit region. Works in 23.3, 
broke in 26.3

> From: "Bob Floyd" <bobfloyd@comcast.net>
> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 17:05:57 -0800
> 
> 7. Nothing happens because the region in step (1) has been lost.
>     It should ask to replace 4 �_xx�s in the region.

I suspect this is due to changes in how selection works in Emacs.
Those changes were made in Emacs 24; please see the section "Selection
changes" in the file etc/NEWS.24, where you will also find
instructions for getting back the old behavior.