Comments on: Which Function Mode

By: Hiding and replacing modeline strings with clean-mode-line | Mastering Emacs

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:18:44 +0000

[...] If you are like me, you are probably using one or more minor modes, and most of them add their own lighter to the modeline to tell you that they are running. Common examples include “Abbrev” for Abbrev mode; “yas” for Yasnippet mode and so on. Unfortunately, modeline real estate is expensive, and if you are stuck on a small screen — or if you split your Emacs windows a lot — you will find that it is often truncated, possibly hiding useful information that you actually care about, such as Which Function Mode. [...]

By: Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:55:51 +0000

That’s a nice one. I already use it happily. Little drawback however: if a function’s name is updated/changed the display of the function name is not updated in the mode-line. I wonder if there is some way make which-func-mode rescan the buffer to update the display and tried to “customize”, but with no luck…

By: mickey

mickey — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:20:39 +0000

Ah, yes. Thanks for pointing that out.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:51:56 +0000

This is nice indeed, thanks! However I had to (require ‘which-func)