Re: `insert' deactivates active region

[Stefan Monnier]

>     I do think it is a bug.  The problem is that deactivate-mark is global
>     whereas mark-active (which is deactivated through the deactivate-mark
>     variable) is buffer-local.
> It is not a bug, but it could be a misfeature.
> However, changing it would be risky--other things might break.  I
> think it is safer to keep this unchanged.

I agree that it is not clear what a solution to this bug/misfeature would
look like exactly and that for now it's safer to keep it unchanged.


        Stefan