plug-in or plugin?

C. Michael Pilato cmpilato at red-bean.com
Wed Jun 11 20:51:02 CDT 2008


The O'Reilly style guide[1] says "plug-in".

[1] http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html

Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Google sez:
> 
> plugin: 126,000,000
> plug-in: 183,000,000
> 
> Plug-in FTW!
> 
> -Fitz
> 
> On 6/11/08, Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman at red-bean.com> wrote:
>> We have a consistency problem:
>>
>>  $ grep "plugin" *.xml
>>  ch06-server-configuration.xml:      access</quote> API allows
>>  programmers to write plugins that
>>  ch08-embedding-svn.xml:      same interface, all working as plugins to
>>  ch08-embedding-svn.xml:      ways—both are plugins to the common
>>  ch08-embedding-svn.xml:        <filename>libsvn_fs_fs</filename>
>>  plugins), and the repository
>>  ch08-embedding-svn.xml:        Subversion filesystem plugin that used
>>  their ultra-scalable
>>  ch08-embedding-svn.xml:        plugins is able to perform that task
>>  using a specific
>>
>>  $ grep "plug-in" *.xml
>>  ch00-preface.xml:            <para>A plug-in module for the Apache
>>  HTTP Server, used to
>>  ch06-server-configuration.xml:          where SASL plug-ins are
>>  located.  You'll have to locate the
>>  ch06-server-configuration.xml:          plug-in directory on your
>>  particular system, such
>>  ch06-server-configuration.xml:          <filename>sasl*.dll</filename>
>>  plug-in libraries), and a key
>>  ch06-server-configuration.xml:        plug-in modules that work only
>>  against the Apache 1.3 API, and
>>
>>  Looking at the copyedits from O'Reilly, I think I was told to do
>>  "plug-in" throughout chapter 6.  Mike, did chapter 8 not have that?
>>  Did we just have two different copyeditors?
>>  \
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