Emacs statusbar documentation

Question

There are a lot of abbreviations on the emacs status bar and no good way to decode them. This article was the most helpful. I could not find the word \"status bar\" in the

Answer 1

Emacs calls it the mode line. You should read the manual. It contains exhaustive discussions on terminology which are (sadly) quite different from what most other programs employ.

Details are in the manual at:
C-hig (emacs) Mode Line RET