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Starting in Emacs 21, a window can have a header line at the top, just as it can have a mode line at the bottom. The header line feature works just like the mode line feature, except that it's controlled by different variables.
This variable, local in every buffer, specifies how to display the header line, for windows displaying the buffer. The format of the value is the same as for
mode-line-format
(see Mode Line Data).