You can probably ignore this.. at least on github, not many people are
tweaking this variable:
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=extension%3Ael+%22setq+region+extract+function%22

:P

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:29 PM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I do not know if a change to the default value of region-extract-function
> is supposed to be put in the NEWS; especially because it's a defvar, not a
> defcustom.
>
> But that change broke my config because I was tweaking the value of
> region-extract-function.
>
> Commit that changes the default value of region-extract-function:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/diff/lisp/simple.el?h=emacs-25&id=31f6e939334180add7bc11240343615a2e6350f6
>
> Here is the associated change I needed in my config:
> https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/commit/ae38531ca5fb51d4b3303face4c5103ed4f70b3b
>
> I need to update the region-extract-function because I want to add C-u
> functionality to C-w/M-w. (Please advise if there's a better way to do
> that.)
>