Subject: Re: bug#9448: 24.0.50; Comments in Awk scripts not fontified with comment face

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:04:47 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:50:36 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Files should be compiled in batch mode in a separate Emacs instance.

Are you saying that emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load's interactive use
should be discouraged?  I use it quite frequently to test changes in
the same Emacs session where I make those changes.  If we think it's
not a good idea, then we should deprecate the command and remove the
corresponding menu item.