Rice is calling....If you have to look at your stick to see what it's doing, you don't deserve to be using one /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Seriously though, every once in a blue moon, I thought it'd be neat to have it shown on the dash. However, I generally always know what gear I'm in, based on the engine rpm and if it's in the up or down position, so to speak.
my wife's mazda 6 shows what gear its in on the cluster (1, 2, 3, etc.), *but* it's auto. Still a neat feature and if I had gobs of time and was bored, I'd see how to incorporate that.