Argh!

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

r> Something is shitting on my minibuffer.  It puts a PROMPT (->) in
r> the minibuffer, which, of course, make things like M-$ useless, as
r> the prompt flashes up to replace whatever was there before.

It's probably BBDB leaving you in electric-lossage-and-death-mode.
Spew.  Retch.  York.  Splutter.

Your options:

- Switch to the BBDB buffer; hit "q".

- M-x top-level

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