Aliasing zmacs-regions, providing a transient-mark-mode

The discussion of regions brings up a point. GNU emacs nowadays uses
transient-mark-mode for what xemacs uses zmacs-regions. The latter
name is pretty much meaningless for at least us novice users, and
similarly the first sentence of the docstring (*Whether LISPM-style
active regions should be used.), which is a bummer since that's the
sentence that shows up in apropos searches.

Would there be support for a patch that simply does the equivalent of 

(defvar zmacs-regions nil
        "*Whether regions should be deactivated by most (non-motion) commands. 
...")
(defvaralias 'transient-mark-mode 'zmacs-regions), 

and uncomments out the transient-mark-mode defun in simple.el ?

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