It should be easy to whip up a view that renders just the text content as a debug view. Either as a Split View in the TUI, or even by using something like DVUI to render a full on debug GUI in a separate window.
Either way, having access to a lot of quick debug info is going to be real nice. Making that a GUI in a separate window that can be enabled with a compile-time flag has a certain appeal to it too.
This has been added after moving to vxim