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WikiEditor feels slow when starting up because you can't edit while the toolbar is rendering, which sometimes takes a few seconds. If you try to edit too soon (before the toolbar is fully rendered), the textbox loses focus and suddenly, your typing is not being captured.

1. Visit an article and click the Edit link to enter WikiEditor.
2. Immediately, before WikiEditor has finished rendering its toolbar, click the edit box and start typing.
3. As the toolbar continues to render, the textbox loses focus so your typing does not have any effect.

Can WikiEditor somehow keep the focus on wpTextbox1 while the toolbar is rendering?

Other notes:

This feeling of slowness is worse if your site has customized the toolbar, particularly adding or removing buttons in the 'main' section, for example:

 $('#wpTextbox1').wikiEditor('removeFromToolbar', {
        'section': 'advanced',
        'group': 'format',
        'tool': 'newline'
        });

because these happen after the rest of the toolbar is rendered, lengthening the render time.