User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Try the New Wikia Editor/@comment-1474707-20110731235610/@comment-3388044-20110803015219

 Kirkburn : The shortcut keys worked in IE8 with the old RTE and in Monobook. They weren’t being stolen then. Regarding IE9, MS says that IE9 cannot be used with Windows versions older than Windows 7, so I’m out of luck. I noticed you also referred to them as access keys. I also notice that there are, on some wikis, pages in the MediaWiki namespace with “access key” in the name. Does that mean we can perhaps define these in that namespace and make them work?

 Hasdi : I find that with RTE disabled in my Preferences, once I collapse the siderail, it is always collapsed by default. Also, your comment about the editor being “draggy” is too true. Once it starts, it is like watching a 100baud teletype as it puts what you type on the screen one very slow letter at a time. Until they fix it — they already know about it from earlier reports — one thing you can do is not type the opening brackets until after you have typed the rest of the string to be enclosed in the brackets. This keeps the LinkSuggest from kicking in.