diff --git a/library/Core.cpp b/library/Core.cpp
index 7349d1a548..60969c8a51 100644
--- a/library/Core.cpp
+++ b/library/Core.cpp
@@ -467,9 +467,7 @@ static bool try_autocomplete(color_ostream &con, const std::string &first, std::
 {
     std::vector<std::string> commands, possible;
 
-    // restore call to get_commands once we have updated the core lock to a deferred lock
-    // so calling Lua from the console thread won't deadlock if Lua is currently busy
-    //get_commands(con, commands);
+    get_commands(con, commands);
     for (auto &command : commands)
         if (command.substr(0, first.size()) == first)
             possible.push_back(command);