Load the following code block: (defun test () (interactive) (print this-command) (read-from-minibuffer "test") (print this-command)) Now run M-x test. The first print prints correctly "test" while the second print prints "exit-minibuffer" The docstring of the `this-command` variable says: "The command now being executed." I would think the command "exit-minibuffer" should have been completed here, so the current command being executed for the second print, i.e. the value of the `this-command` variable, should again be "test". In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.23, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-12-21 built on daniel-Ubuntu Repository revision: faf3613cba8571eaef2709bd7bb6f11a956b9262 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12009000 System Description: Ubuntu 20.10 Configured using: 'configure --with-imagemagick --with-cairo --with-modules' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO IMAGEMAGICK 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 LIBSYSTEMD PDUMPER LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LC_MONETARY: nl_NL.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: nl_NL.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: nl_NL.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Message Minor modes in effect: mml-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-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 auto-fill-function: message-do-auto-fill transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (cus-edit cus-start cus-load wid-edit mailalias mailclient pp shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils help-fns radix-tree cl-print debug backtrace help-mode find-func .emacs finder-inf info package easymenu browse-url url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util mailcap url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib iso-transl tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 237418 22864) (symbols 48 15091 0) (strings 32 75289 3389) (string-bytes 1 1916083) (vectors 16 22714) (vector-slots 8 306359 25686) (floats 8 41 58) (intervals 56 1029 11) (buffers 984 16))