Hi Chet,

Here you go, if you're inclined.  Minimally invasive and decidedly
non-revolutionary in terms on English lexicon.

Patch attached.

At 2021-06-05T23:29:58-0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>       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

My "git grep" didn't turn this file up anyway.  Maybe I'm on the wrong
branch?

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

Thanks, Lawrence!

Regards,
Branden
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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 14:22:41 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] [docs]: Adopt gender-indifferent language.
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Noted by Vipul Kumar and Lawrence Velázquez on the bug-bash list[1].

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-06/msg00008.html
---
 doc/bashref.texi             | 2 +-
 lib/readline/doc/rltech.texi | 2 +-
 lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/bashref.texi b/doc/bashref.texi
index 9e23f586..7ba3c448 100644
--- a/doc/bashref.texi
+++ b/doc/bashref.texi
@@ -7671,7 +7671,7 @@ The restricted shell mode is only one component of a useful restricted
 environment. It should be accompanied by setting @env{PATH} to a value
 that allows execution of only a few verified commands (commands that
 allow shell escapes are particularly vulnerable), leaving the user
-in a non-writable directory other than his home directory after login,
+in a non-writable directory other than @env{HOME} after login,
 not allowing the restricted shell to execute shell scripts, and cleaning
 the environment of variables that cause some commands to modify their
 behavior (e.g., @env{VISUAL} or @env{PAGER}).
diff --git a/lib/readline/doc/rltech.texi b/lib/readline/doc/rltech.texi
index bbf57c23..c3567a61 100644
--- a/lib/readline/doc/rltech.texi
+++ b/lib/readline/doc/rltech.texi
@@ -1611,7 +1611,7 @@ main (int c, char **v)
 
 Signals are asynchronous events sent to a process by the Unix kernel,
 sometimes on behalf of another process.  They are intended to indicate
-exceptional events, like a user pressing the interrupt key on his terminal,
+exceptional events, like a user pressing the interrupt key on the terminal,
 or a network connection being broken.  There is a class of signals that can
 be sent to the process currently reading input from the keyboard.  Since
 Readline changes the terminal attributes when it is called, it needs to
diff --git a/lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi b/lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi
index 26b0ff07..62df6ceb 100644
--- a/lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi
+++ b/lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ Although the Readline library comes with a set of Emacs-like
 keybindings installed by default, it is possible to use a different set
 of keybindings.
 Any user can customize programs that use Readline by putting
-commands in an @dfn{inputrc} file, conventionally in his home directory.
+commands in an @dfn{inputrc} file, conventionally in @env{HOME}.
 The name of this
 @ifset BashFeatures
 file is taken from the value of the shell variable @env{INPUTRC}.  If
-- 
2.20.1

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