My next problem is the bold font toggling in math mode. ctrl-B
generates a
default \mathsymbol{} command which is wrong wrong wrong! A bold math
character should almost always be non-italicized. The one exception
may be
Greek characters, but only because Latex has issues with that
anyway. The
reason is that a bold letter represents a vector or matrix, which
should
never be in italic font. Instead the old behavior of using
\mathbf{} is
probably the correct one.
One other thing: it isn't clear to me if the default should be
\mathbf{} or \boldsymbol{}, since either one may be appropriate
depending on the context. You can bind either to ctrl-b.