Don't make assumptions about gender in your documentation.
If you use VIM, you can use the following configuration to alert you to any gender-specific pronouns in your documentation, giving you the chance to de-gender them as necessary.
gender.vim
extends the syntax highlighting of a filetype to highlight certain words.
You will need to load this after any default syntax highlighting gets applied to your filetype. The after
directory in VIM gets loaded after other plugins or syntax files, making it the location where you should store extensions to existing behavior. If doesn't exist already, make a ~/.vim/after/syntaxdirectory, and place
gender.vim` inside it.