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

[Bob Floyd]

For my two cents, what you write sounds like the real problem is the
minibuffer failing to restore on exit. A fix to that would be preferable to
the patch. After all, who knows what else may affected by the minibuffer!
I'd be happy to test this alternative.

-----Original Message-----
From: Juri Linkov [mailto:juri@linkov.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 10:27 AM
To: Bob Floyd
Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii'; 45617@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45617: <query-replace> loses the edit region. Works in
23.3, broke in 26.3

> Thanks! The patch has fixed the issue.

If there is no need to support the broken feature of saving
region boundaries as code in the command history, then
this patch could be pushed.  Otherwise, another solution is
to restore the previously selected region after exiting the minibuffer
the same way as exiting the minibuffer restores window configurations
(there is a new option to disable this discussed in bug#45072).