User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Try the New Wikia Editor/@comment-1474707-20110731235610/@comment-126761-20110802120046

Reducing the number of reasons the editor falls back to source mode is planned, yeah.

On the shortcuts/access keys: Alt+P and Alt+C don't work in IE8 as IE seems to 'steal' them for it's own purposes, and we've not been able to work around it. However, they are working in other browsers and IE9.