I run emacs -Q -l ~/tmp/testcompletion.el then hit the following keys: C-h f m i n i b u f TAB RET After "TAB" I get : minibufferp [Matched] in the minibuffer. After "RET" I get a description of `minibuffer-depth' which is totally unexpected to me. I expected a description of the function `minibufferp'. In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars) of 2015-06-11 on Aurora Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000 System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Configured using: `configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid --enable-checkings 'CFLAGS= -O0 -g3'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND GSETTINGS NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID Important settings: value of $LANG: fr_BE.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix