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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
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--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -321,8 +321,17 @@ the ordering of object keys by default.
 `json-pretty-print-buffer-ordered' pretty prints JSON objects with
 object keys sorted alphabetically.
 
++++
 ** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
-See `prog-indentation-context' and `prog-widen'.
+This allows better indentation support in modes that support multiple
+programming languages in the same buffer, like literate programming
+environments or ANTLR programs with embedded Python code.
+
+A major mode can provide indentation context for a sub-mode through
+the `prog-indentation-context' variable.  To support this, modes that
+provide indentation should use `prog-widen' instead of `widen' and
+`prog-first-column' instead of a literal zero.  See the node
+"Mode-Specific Indent" in the ELisp manual for more details.
 
 ** Prettify Symbols mode