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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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    What about region-given-p or region-specified-p or region-selected-p?

Those talk more specifically about the preexisting situation
rather than about the action to be taken.  And they are partly
inaccurate about what they say about the situation.  For that
reason I don't like them.