Merge pull request #1545 from garbados/gendered-terms-in-docs

degendered terms

docs/hacking-howto

@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ gets started in any way) and the window(s) which appear.
 
 Imagine for example using dmenu: The user starts dmenu by pressing Mod+d, dmenu
 gets started with PID 3390. The user then decides to launch Firefox, which
-takes a long time. So he enters firefox into dmenu and presses enter. Firefox
+takes a long time. So they enter firefox into dmenu and press enter. Firefox
 gets started with PID 4001. When it finally finishes loading, it creates an X11
 window and uses MapWindow to make it visible. This is the first time i3
 actually gets in touch with Firefox. It decides to map the window, but it has

i3-dmenu-desktop

@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ for my $app (keys %apps) {
 #   };
 
 # ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
-# ┃ Run dmenu to ask the user for her choice                                  ┃
+# ┃ Run dmenu to ask the user for their choice                                  ┃
 # ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
 
 # open2 will just make dmenu’s STDERR go to our own STDERR.

i3-migrate-config-to-v4

@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ sub convert_command {
             # NOTE: This is not 100% accurate, as it only works for one level
             # of nested containers. As this is a common use case, we use 'focus
             # parent; $command' nevertheless. For advanced use cases, the user
-            # has to modify his config.
+            # has to modify their config.
             print "$statement $key focus parent; $command\n";
         }
         return;

i3-nagbar/main.c

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * © 2009-2013 Michael Stapelberg and contributors (see also: LICENSE)
  *
  * i3-nagbar is a utility which displays a nag message, for example in the case
- * when the user has an error in his configuration file.
+ * when the user has an error in their configuration file.
  *
  */
 #include <stdio.h>

i3.config

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ bar {
 
 #######################################################################
 # automatically start i3-config-wizard to offer the user to create a
-# keysym-based config which used his favorite modifier (alt or windows)
+# keysym-based config which used their favorite modifier (alt or windows)
 #
 # i3-config-wizard will not launch if there already is a config file
 # in ~/.i3/config.

include/config.h

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ struct Config {
 
     /** By default, focus follows mouse. If the user explicitly wants to
      * turn this off (and instead rely only on the keyboard for changing
-     * focus), we allow him to do this with this relatively special option.
+     * focus), we allow them to do this with this relatively special option.
      * It is not planned to add any different focus models. */
     bool disable_focus_follows_mouse;
 

include/data.h

@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ struct Match {
 /**
  * An Assignment makes specific windows go to a specific workspace/output or
  * run a command for that window. With this mechanism, the user can -- for
- * example -- assign his browser to workspace "www". Checking if a window is
+ * example -- assign their browser to workspace "www". Checking if a window is
  * assigned works by comparing the Match data structure with the window (see
  * match_matches_window()).
  *

include/key_press.h

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ void handle_key_press(xcb_key_press_event_t *event);
 /**
  * Kills the commanderror i3-nagbar process, if any.
  *
- * Called when reloading/restarting, since the user probably fixed his wrong
+ * Called when reloading/restarting, since the user probably fixed their wrong
  * keybindings.
  *
  * If wait_for_it is set (restarting), this function will waitpid(), otherwise,

libi3/font.c

@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static int xcb_query_text_width(const xcb_char2b_t *text, size_t text_len) {
                                                                          cookie, &error);
     if (reply == NULL) {
         /* We return a safe estimate because a rendering error is better than
-         * a crash. Plus, the user will see the error in his log. */
+         * a crash. Plus, the user will see the error in their log. */
         fprintf(stderr, "Could not get text extents (X error code %d)\n",
                 error->error_code);
         return savedFont->specific.xcb.info->max_bounds.character_width * text_len;

man/i3-sensible-editor.man

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ It tries to start one of the following (in that order):
 * gedit
 * mc-edit
 
-Please don’t complain about the order: If the user has any preference, he will
+Please don’t complain about the order: If the user has any preference, they will
 have $VISUAL or $EDITOR set.
 
 == SEE ALSO

man/i3-sensible-pager.man

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ It tries to start one of the following (in that order):
 * w3m
 * i3-sensible-editor(1)
 
-Please don’t complain about the order: If the user has any preference, he will
+Please don’t complain about the order: If the user has any preference, they will
 have $PAGER set.
 
 == SEE ALSO

man/i3-sensible-terminal.man

@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ It tries to start one of the following (in that order):
 * roxterm
 * xfce4-terminal
 
-Please don’t complain about the order: If the user has any preference, she will
+Please don’t complain about the order: If the user has any preference, they will
-have $TERMINAL set or modified her i3 configuration file.
+have $TERMINAL set or modified their i3 configuration file.
 
 == SEE ALSO
 

src/config_parser.c

@@ -823,11 +823,11 @@ static char *migrate_config(char *input, off_t size) {
         fprintf(stderr, "Migration process exit code was != 0\n");
         if (returncode == 2) {
             fprintf(stderr, "could not start the migration script\n");
-            /* TODO: script was not found. tell the user to fix his system or create a v4 config */
+            /* TODO: script was not found. tell the user to fix their system or create a v4 config */
         } else if (returncode == 1) {
             fprintf(stderr, "This already was a v4 config. Please add the following line to your config file:\n");
             fprintf(stderr, "# i3 config file (v4)\n");
-            /* TODO: nag the user with a message to include a hint for i3 in his config file */
+            /* TODO: nag the user with a message to include a hint for i3 in their config file */
         }
         return NULL;
     }

src/handlers.c

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static void check_crossing_screen_boundary(uint32_t x, uint32_t y) {
         return;
     }
 
-    /* Focus the output on which the user moved his cursor */
+    /* Focus the output on which the user moved their cursor */
     Con *old_focused = focused;
     Con *next = con_descend_focused(output_get_content(output->con));
     /* Since we are switching outputs, this *must* be a different workspace, so
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static void handle_enter_notify(xcb_enter_notify_event_t *event) {
         enter_child = true;
     }
 
-    /* If not, then the user moved his cursor to the root window. In that case, we adjust c_ws */
+    /* If not, then the user moved their cursor to the root window. In that case, we adjust c_ws */
     if (con == NULL) {
         DLOG("Getting screen at %d x %d\n", event->root_x, event->root_y);
         check_crossing_screen_boundary(event->root_x, event->root_y);
@@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ void handle_event(int type, xcb_generic_event_t *event) {
             handle_motion_notify((xcb_motion_notify_event_t *)event);
             break;
 
-        /* Enter window = user moved his mouse over the window */
+        /* Enter window = user moved their mouse over the window */
         case XCB_ENTER_NOTIFY:
             handle_enter_notify((xcb_enter_notify_event_t *)event);
             break;

src/main.c

@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         ELOG("Could not setup signal handler");
 
     /* Ignore SIGPIPE to survive errors when an IPC client disconnects
-     * while we are sending him a message */
+     * while we are sending them a message */
     signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
 
     /* Autostarting exec-lines */