...the empeg crew relented. I believe they still think we're wrong, but they gave in just to shut us up.

Dunno about "wrong": I for one liked the idea of your new insert mode -- I just didn't fancy losing the old insert mode. So I believe we're going to get both. Some idea of the nature of the alpha list can be gleaned by outsiders from the fact that most of the flame-war was over which of the two should be called "insert"...

Peter