Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
You might find the GNU ELPA package delight.el to be suitable.
See https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DelightedModes for details.
There are other options as well, including these (and maybe
more besides):
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/72194/454
Lars, I think this is a duplicate of bug#30978 ?
Yes, sort of. And the conclusion is that there's a bunch of these
packages out there for a reason -- people have very different needs and
expectations for the mode line, so different packages makes sense. So
adding something to the core here wouldn't be helpful, and I'm therefore
closing this bug report.