Re: Prefer non-gender specific pronouns

[Lawrence Velázquez]

> On Jun 5, 2021, at 12:47 PM, John Passaro <john.a.passaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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".

There don't seem to be many instances in the Texinfo source.

#1, already pointed out by OP:

        % ripgrep -w -g '*.texi' 'he|his|him'
        doc/bashref.texi
        7848:in a non-writable directory other than his home directory after 
login,

Not relevant, as these refer to specific individuals:

        doc/oldbash.texi
        178:manual.  Brian and Diane would like to thank Chet Ramey for his
        9138:# The alternative explanation is that his frequent use of the

#2, from readline:

        lib/readline/doc/rltech.texi
        1654:exceptional events, like a user pressing the interrupt key on his 
terminal,

#3, from readline, already pointed out by OP:

        lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi
        342:commands in an @dfn{inputrc} file, conventionally in his home 
directory.

From GNU termcap (I think), so out of scope:

        lib/termcap/grot/termcap.texi
        1477:specify what type he really has.  One example of a generic type

That's three.  Pretty tractable for anyone so inclined.  (Didn't
look at source code comments or anything.)


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