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Introduction Whether your own or someone else’s writing, alex helps you find gender favouring, polarising, race related, religion inconsiderate, or other unequal phrasing. For example, when We’ve confirmed his identity is given to alex, it will warn and suggest using their instead of his . GitHub »

Online demo » Why To get better at considerate writing Catches many possible offenses Suggests helpful alternatives Reads plain-text and markdown as input Stylish

Command Line sh alex example.md example.md 1:5-1:14 warning `boogeyman` may be insensitive, use `boogey` instead boogeyman-boogeywoman 1:42-1:48 warning `master` / `slaves` may be insensitive, use `primary` / `replica` instead master-slave 2:52-2:54 warning `he` may be insensitive, use `they`, `it` instead he-she 2:61-2:68 warning `cripple` may be insensitive, use `person with a limp` instead cripple ⚠ 4 warnings Install using npm (with Node.js): $ npm install alex --global Let’s say example.md looks as follows: The boogeyman wrote all changes to the **master server**. Thus, the slaves were read-only copies of master. But not to worry, he was a cripple. Then, run alex on example.md : alex example.md Yields: example.md 1:5-1:14 warning `boogeyman` may be insensitive, use `boogey` instead boogeyman-boogeywoman 1:42-1:48 warning `master` / `slaves` may be insensitive, use `primary` / `replica` instead master-slave 2:52-2:54 warning `he` may be insensitive, use `they`, `it` instead he-she 2:61-2:68 warning `cripple` may be insensitive, use `person with a limp` instead cripple ⚠ 4 warnings See alex --help for more information.

Contributing alex is open source software and accepts requests from the community. Suggestions, feature requests, and issues are more than welcome. Requests can be submitted on GitHub Issues. Try it, contributing to open source—helping others out—is great. You can also tweet to me or send me an e-mail. Even small requests, such as a single word, are greatly appreciated!

The boogeyman wrote all changes to the **master server**, as he was tired of waiting for those buttheads in IT. Thus, the slaves were read-only copies of master.