User blog comment:Sarah Manley/New Editor Scheduled for Sitewide Release/@comment-168424-20110902153822

I wish I could say I like this new editor. It has some improvements over the old RTE, but alot of changes have made it a pain to use. What changes you my ask?
 * No obvious way to cancel and edit.
 * Edit summary auto-complete doesn't work as well as it did before (or not at all for me in some cases).
 * Categories added by templates don't show up in preview or anywhere else.
 * Template listing is more awkward.
 * Search and wiki menus are not accessible.
 * It takes an extra step to get to Wikitext shortcuts.
 * 4 template buttons mostly useless.
 * Visual mode doesn't even work on complex pages, but it isn't clear what the threshold is.
 * Edit area still goes to the bottom of the browser window most of the time with no gap (seems buggy and sometimes shows a gap and sometimes doesn't).
 * Sidebar stuff can go off the bottom of the window and be completely or partly inaccessible with no scroll bar appearing to get to it.
 * Preview drop-menu needs a History link.
 * In Visual mode, copying and pasting is very unpredictable. It allowed me to make a bullet item that was not detected by the RTE, so I couldn't turn off the bullet in Visual mode.
 * "Make new layout from this page" should not be in the Templates area. It really has nothing to do with templates.

By the way, I found out that "Widen the Source mode edit box to fill the entire screen" will appear checked in your preferences, but you need to uncheck and recheck it then save to get it to work again.