And another #emacs tidbit: I have augmented nano-modeline to display which-function as well, so you have context on where in your code you are. And finally I managed to make it stick out by making it orange! :)
https://github.com/root42/yet-another-emacs-init-el/blob/527ab212ad49beeec3d8c18a764f17075bde34ab/init.el#L128
yet-another-emacs-init-el/init.el at 527ab212ad49beeec3d8c18a764f17075bde34ab · root42/yet-another-emacs-init-el

This is a nice, rather small init.el for Emacs24.4 and up. - root42/yet-another-emacs-init-el

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