> Can you please provide a complete recipe, starting from "emacs -Q", > for creating such a frame? That should make reproducing the problem > much easier. It took me a while to narrow it down. But I think this is minimal - seems like everything here is needed. See attached file, onetest4.el. 1. Start Emacs with an MS Windows shortcut that has this target: runemacs.exe -Q --debug-init -l "onetest4.el" -f "1on1-emacs" "onetest4.el" 2. Click the title bar of the minibuffer frame (not needed, but just to make sure the frame is selected. 3. C-h k 4. Click mouse-1 somewhere in the second line of the minibuffer frame. You see this message: (translated from ) at that spot is undefined Click again. You see this message: is undefined Check buffer *Messages*, and you see something like this: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. (translated from ) at that spot is undefined is undefined is undefined