RE: Seeking advice on writing a "line-based" major mode

[Drew Adams]

> >> the buffer will contain a bunch of lines, each of them
> >> correspoding to some object (basically, I have a vector
> >> of these "objects", and I want to display them in some way).
> >
> > Sounds like a candidate for `tabulated-list-mode'.  You can
> > use that to print lines that are composed of one or more
> > columns, and a header line that let you sort by any column
> > (if you want).
> 
> Thanks for your tip, though after consideration I ended up using
> EWOC.

It might help others if you say why.  For example, what in your
problem context helped you decide that EWOC might be more useful
to it than `tabulated-list-mode'?