bug#39293: [PATCH] Base bookmark-bmenu-mode on 'tabulated-list-mode'

[Stefan Kangas]

Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com> writes:

> Both features looks interesting to me. Thanks for working on that!

Thanks!

>> The only functional step backwards is that we no longer support
>> the optional "inline" header line -- a bookmark.el-specific hack
>> to have a header without using 'header-line-format'.  I don't
>> believe this feature is very useful since the lack of such
>> support for anything similar in e.g. 'package-menu-mode' has not
>> caused any problems.  It seems to have been added together with
>> 'header-line-format' as a fire escape if the latter caused any
>> problems.
>
> I am the one who introduced `header-line-format` in bookmark.el
> (7a78e19f24) and I confirm that I kept the legacy header "just in
> case".  The new behavior has been enabled by default since 2013,
> and I've not heard any complaint.

This is useful information which confirms that we can safely remove it.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas