In Civil 3D 2013, if I execute refedit or bedit, I don't have any dialogs, or contextual ribbon tabs. In refedit, I don't mind so much, since I can just type 'refclose' when finished, but in bedit, I don't have access to the block editing palette, or a way to change visibility states when editing a dynamic block.
Has anyone encountered this? Do I just have some weird sysvar turned off?