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| author | Jan Edmund Lazo <jan.lazo@mail.utoronto.ca> | 2021-04-27 20:10:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Jan Edmund Lazo <jan.lazo@mail.utoronto.ca> | 2021-04-27 20:25:21 -0400 |
| commit | a299f54cd7e949e93a9ddc07ec13999e6da489af (patch) | |
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| parent | 95f02cb587f9859fa558b59617b87a9808ec2cb9 (diff) | |
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vim-patch:eab6dff19f38
Update runtime files
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/eab6dff19f387469a200011bc6cf3508f5e43a4a
Omit de.po translations.
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diff --git a/runtime/doc/helphelp.txt b/runtime/doc/helphelp.txt index 182fc1cef5..c9bee17d70 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/helphelp.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/helphelp.txt @@ -368,4 +368,15 @@ highlighting. So do these: You can find the details in $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/help.vim + *inclusion* +Some people make a big deal about using "his" when referring to the user, +thinking it means we assume the user is male. That is of course not the case, +it's just a habit of writing help text, which quite often is many years old. +Also, a lot of the text is written by contributors for who English is not +their first language. We do not make any assumptions about the gender of the +user, no matter how the text is phrased. And we do not want to waste time on +this discussion. The goal is that the reader understands how Vim works, the +exact wording is secondary. + + vim:tw=78:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl: |