Re: Prefer non-gender specific pronouns

[John Passaro]

I can see a couple reasons why it would be a good thing, and in the con
column only "I personally don't have time to go through the manual and make
these changes". but I'd happily upvote a patch from somebody that does.
</two-cents>

On Sat, Jun 5, 2021, 09:24 Vipul Kumar <kumar+bug-bash@onenetbeyond.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Isn't it a good idea to prefer non-gender specific pronoun (like "their"
> instead of "his") at following places in the reference manual?
>
>  > leaving the user in a non-writable directory other than his home
> directory after login, [1]
>
>  > his home directory. The name of this file is taken from the value of
> the shell variable [2]
>
> [1]:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Restricted-Shell.html#The-Restricted-Shell
> [2]:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-Init-File.html#Readline-Init-File
>
>
> Cheers,
> Vipul
>