Deepak Narain wrote:
>
> At the risk of sounding stupid in front of tens of thousands (okay,
> slight exaggeration) of people:
>
> Whenever I am done using bbdb, it takes over my minibuffer and does
> strange things to it (like putting a -> and echoing every character I
> type anywhere into the minibuffer). Quitting bbdb returns the
> minibuffer to the normal state.
You were in electric mode, and you switched buffers or windows instead of
dismissing it with SPC. Your world is now hosed until you end the recursive
edit.
Electric mode is an abomination, and I'm sorry I made use of it at all.
-- Jamie