bug#15513: Isearch should clear shift-selected region

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Actually, any highlighted region is a transient region.  Motion commands
> deactivate the current selection only in the case where the selection
> was made with shifted motion commands.
>
> So C-s should only deactivate the region if it has been activated by
> shifted motion commands.

I think that makes sense -- but Emacs has worked this way for a long
time now, and I can't recall seeing many complaints about the behaviour
of `C-S-right C-s', so changing the behaviour may annoy people.

Anybody got an opinion here?

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