Mush to disabling my plugin during testing?

I'm currently writing, testing, and debugging a plugin. But often when I get a "compiler error" report in the world output, the plugin will unload and then proceed to remove itself from the list of <!-- plugins --> for that world.

This is annoying because when this happens I have to add it back to the plugin list then reconnect to the world so that it loads.

Is there a better way to do this?

Yes there is. See: http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=12843

I use that trick all the time.