How to show debug messages in xed?

[tlemy]

I want to know how to show debug messages in xed. Here is what I tried so far:

1. adding this line in a function in xed-commands-file.c:

xed_debug_message(DEBUG_COMMANDS, "num tabs: %d\n", window->priv->num_tabs);

2. adding this line in meson.build:

add_project_arguments('-g', language: 'c')

3. reconfiguring, building and installing:

$ meson --prefix=/usr build --reconfigure\n`
$ ninja -v -C build
$ sudo ninja install -v -C build

4. running

$ xed --gtk-debug=printing

This obviously doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

[tlemy]

I ended up using

g_print("num tabs: %d\n", window->priv->num_tabs);

it works for now.