I believe there is a regression, but possibly intentional, caused by this patch: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/203e61ff837128b397eb313a5bb1b703f0eae0ec This affects minibuffers created when (kbd-macro-query t) is called as part of the hook that runs when the (read-from-minibuffer) function is called. You get the error message "Not in most nested command loop". For example, this code here: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyboardMacros#h5o-5 Or, pasting the code in question: (defun my-macro-query (arg) "Prompt for input using minibuffer during kbd macro execution. With prefix argument, allows you to select what prompt string to use. If the input is non-empty, it is inserted at point." (interactive "P") (let* ((prompt (if arg (read-from-minibuffer "PROMPT: ") "Input: ")) (input (minibuffer-with-setup-hook (lambda () (kbd-macro-query t)) (read-from-minibuffer prompt)))) (unless (string= "" input) (insert input)))) (global-set-key (kbd "C-x Q") 'my-macro-query) If you attempt to start a keyboard macro via F3, then attempt to read a minibuffer with the above code via C-x Q, upon pressing ENTER to close the minibuffer, you get the following error message: "Not in most nested command loop" You won't be able to close out the minibuffer, the only way I found to proceed was to C-] or multiple escapes, which canceled the keyboard macro creation. As a result, it appears we can't use the above method to read and set variables during keyboard macro creation. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, or if there's a replacement for the above or not. But it appears to be a regression from before that series of patches. 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