The name of the major mode is not displayed correctly when using the %m modeline construct. The name is displayed correctly for every mode except elisp-mode. Steps to reproduce : - Launch emacs -q - Evaluate this :: (setq-default mode-line-format "[%m]") For every major mode you should see for example [Message] or [Dired by name] or [Help] but for elisp-mode you get []. In GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin21.1.0, NS appkit-2113.00 Version 12.0.1 (Build 21A559)) of 2022-05-11 built on armbob.lan Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2113 System Description: macOS 12.5 Configured using: 'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/site-lisp' --with-modules' Configured features: ACL GMP GNUTLS JSON LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_FR.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Org Minor modes in effect: display-time-mode: t display-battery-mode: t global-git-commit-mode: t magit-auto-revert-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t global-org-modern-mode: t org-modern-mode: t meow-global-mode: t meow-mode: t meow-normal-mode: t marginalia-mode: t vertico-mode: t pulsar-global-mode: t pulsar-mode: t savehist-mode: t save-place-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t 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