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  • The question is unclear. What do you mean by "I cannot mark text regions"? Be specific. Provide a recipe to repro what you see, starting from emacs -Q (no init file). Say what you see at each step, and what you expected to see instead. Commented Mar 30, 2018 at 23:46
  • @Drew See edits - added exact steps to reproduce the behavior. Commented Mar 30, 2018 at 23:58
  • Thanks. But in that case it appears to be a duplicate question. I retracted my vote to close because it was unclear, but now it should be closed because it is a duplicate. (I can't vote for that now, myself, but others can.) Commented Mar 31, 2018 at 1:25
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    "changed between 2016 and today" - I see the usual Automatically becomes buffer-local when set. in the doc, using the latest Emacs version from emacs-26 and master compiled in the last few days. Commented Mar 31, 2018 at 4:59
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    Note that (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'insert-into-a-buffer :local) makes the APPEND argument non-nil, not the LOCAL argument. Commented Mar 31, 2018 at 10:50