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

[Juri Linkov]

> I'm embarrassed to include my .emacs file - it's an accumulation over
> time of a lot of stuff from unix and windows not cleaned up. Here it
> is: Maybe something in it causing the issue/ maybe not.

This means you don't see the problem when you don't load your .emacs file?
So when you start with 'emacs -Q' there is no problem?