From "emacs -Q": M-x set-variable enable-recursive-minibuffers t M-x switch-to-butter C-a M-% t f ! ;; wait two seconds Expected (in minibuffer): "swifch-to-buffer". Actual (in minibutter): "sef-variable". In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200) of 2013-01-28 on MACHINE Bzr revision: 111617 monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20130128200035-l5y6lyn7rerbmfjn Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.2.9200 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --cflags -I c:/gnuwin32/include --ldflags -L c:/gnuwin32/lib' Important settings: value of $LANG: ENG locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-x s e t - v a r e n a b l e - r e c u r s i v e t M-x s w i t c h - b u t t e r C-a M-% t f ! C-g M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Replaced 1 occurrence Quit Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cus-edit easymenu wid-edit cus-start cus-load help-fns time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process w32notify w32 multi-tty emacs)