Contribute to Emacs by merging into which-func-mode?

[mekeor]

GNU Emacs has a which-func-mode which provides a very similar feature set. breadcrumb.el differs in at least following aspects. But which-func could also benefit from all of these.

• which-func only offers a global mode while breadcrumb offers both a global as well as a buffer-local mode.
• breadcrumb also respects project information from project.el which which-func afaik does not.

Since you are core contributor to GNU Emacs, I suggest to contribute breadcrumb.el to Emacs itself, by moving all its (above mentioned, additional) features to which-func-mode. What do you think?

[joaotavora]

What do you think?

I think this isn't feasible, which-func-mode is much more complex and it'd be hell to make a backward-compatible version of it that provides the same features as breadcrumb.el

Since you are core contributor to GNU Emacs,

Anyone can be that. So you can try, but I don't think it'll be easy.

As to integrating breadcrumb.el into Emacs, it's another issue. I think it's too early for that (there's a policy in Emacs of not using shorthands and I'm not willing to give that up), but again, you can try.