When the bug happens, I get the following messages: after with-local-quit after catch and let text is t PS: It just occured to me that I should search debbugs for "while-no-input" in addition to "icomplete". I just did that; bug#15042 looks like it could maybe be related? In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 6, i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.5, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2019-10-21 built on little-buster Repository revision: 61fb5214816ef3d57e676d900e499ffcd079a1f9 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12004000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Configured using: 'configure --with-xwidgets --with-cairo' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix