Show function name in status line

Question

I edit a large C, C++, or Java file, say, about 15000 lines, with pretty long function definitions, say, about 400 lines. When the cursor is in middle of a function definiti

Answer 1

Based on @solidak solution (which was already based on another one :)

I wanted to always show the function name in the bottom of the terminal. But I had some problems with very large function which I solved that way:

fun! ShowFuncName()
  echohl ModeMsg
  echo getline(search("^[^ \t#/]\\{2}.*[^:]\s*$", 'bWn'))[:winwidth('%')-3]
  echohl None
endfun

augroup show_funcname
  autocmd CursorMoved * :call ShowFuncName()
augroup end