diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cbc9dece3..d93017fd1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2001-08-17  Sven Wischnowsky  <wischnow@zsh.org>
 
+	* 15653: Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete: make insert-tab
+	really default to `true'
+
 	* 15650: Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files, Src/Zle/compcore.c: fix 
 	test for expanded paths in _path_files; more intelligently move
 	glob flags (in particular those added by _approximate) after a
diff --git a/Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete b/Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete
index 5d1f15f3a..5960b2da7 100644
--- a/Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete
+++ b/Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ typeset -U _lastdescr _comp_ignore _comp_colors
 
 [[ -z "$curcontext" ]] && curcontext=:::
 
-zstyle -s ":completion:${curcontext}:" insert-tab tmp || tmp=no
+zstyle -s ":completion:${curcontext}:" insert-tab tmp || tmp=yes
 
 if [[ ( "$tmp" = *pending(|[[:blank:]]*) && PENDING -gt 0 ) ||
       ( "$tmp" = *pending=(#b)([0-9]##)(|[[:blank:]]*) &&