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29.0.50; Behaviour change in master branch

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>
Cc: 53150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53150: 29.0.50; Behaviour change in master branch
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 19:06:06 -0600

Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com> writes:

> On emacs 27 when the region is active and I press C-x C-x to go to the
> other end, then I can use move commands (arrows) to change the region
> boundaries (extend or reduce the region).
>
> Now on master if I do the same after C-x C-x if I move the cursor, the
> region is automatically deactivated immediately.
>
> To reproduce:
>
> emacs -Q
> C-r te <RET>
> C-SPC
> M-f M-f
> C-x C-x
> M-b (or C-b, C-f etc) ;; this deactivates the mark unlike emacs 27

I can't reproduce this on the emacs-28 branch.

> Is this intended??

I don't think so, no.  A git bisect would be welcome.

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