Re: Keep global-mode-string on its own "modeline"?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thuna <thuna.cing@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:05:42 +0200
> 
> 
> > Sorry, I don't follow: it was your suggestion to display the mode "at
> > the top of each Emacs frame".  If by that you didn't mean the frame's
> > title, then what did you mean?
> 
> Well, location-wise, it would be best to keep the frameline (that's what
> I'll call it) away from the modeline, so the most natural place for it
> is at the top.  The frame's title is also at the top, but it (besides
> not always being a thing, as I mentioned before) serves a different and
> important purpose, so I'm not very keen on repurposing it.  I think you
> should be able to see roughly what I want if you switch on tab-bar-mode
> with tab-bar-format set to `(tab-bar-format-global)' (as I mentioned
> before).  I would provide a screenshot if I could, sorry about that.

So will doing this with header-line fit the bill?  If not, why not?