>> Recently we added 'tab-line-exclude-buffers'
>> that is checked by 'buffer-match-p'.
>>
>> Shouldn't we now rename 'global-hl-line-modes' to something like
>> 'global-hl-line-buffers' and use 'buffer-match-p', given that it was
>> added in 31.1, so there is no need to provide an alias for deprecation.
>
> I don't have problem with that, you can do the change, IME
> `buffer-match-p` is a better and powerful alternative to
> `easy-mmode--globalized-predicate-p`,

Do you think we should add the word "exclude" to the name?
Or it's fine to require using 'not' in the condition?

> however the `buffer-predicate` type does not have
> a complete UI for `Customize` yet.

Here is the patch that makes possible the customization
of all `buffer-predicate` conditions recursively: