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

[Juri Linkov]

>> 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?