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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

> Other thing
> -----------------
> Have you ever thought about making "Spacebar" bound to 
> product, instead of *?. This would need a change in the 
> other math bindings, but has two arguments in its favor:
> 
>  -- We keep typing all the day products, spacebar is bigger 
> and better placed.

Yes, but it has another semantics than *.

>  -- WYSIWYG: after all, if you make a product you get an 
> small space; the current binding is __anti__ WYSIWYG, 
> because you type space and you get nothing.

That depends; if you type "s i n space x",
then you do get a space. But you might be right that
a space should always be visible (I was thinking about that).

>  -- more similar to what people already know. 
> 
> My point is that typing products is so common that should 
> be thought as the default between monocharacter symbols.

Wrong.

-Joris-