Hi Noam,

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 5:36 PM Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> Narrowing isn't exactly a minor mode though, wouldn't this be
> potentially confusing?
>

You're right that narrowing isn't exactly a minor mode.  However,
standard-mode-line-format includes narrowing information as part of
mode-line-modes.  So the narrowing indicator is rendered inside the same
parentheses as indicators for true major and minor modes.  Since
describe-mode provides documentation for everything else that's inside
those parentheses, it seemed appropriate to document narrowing in the same
place.

When I first started using emacs some years ago, I remember being confused
why "Narrow" was the only thing in the mode list that wasn't mentioned by
describe-mode.  I understand it now, but I think others might face similar
confusion with the current behavior.  I think this patch would address that.