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.

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Why

1. To get better at considerate writing;
2. Catches many possible offenses;
3. Suggests helpful alternatives;
4. Reads plain-text and markdown as input;
5. Stylish.

Install using npm (with Node.js):

$ npm install alex --global

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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
  1:42-1:48  warning  `master` / `slaves` may be insensitive, use `primary` / `replica` instead
  2:52-2:54  warning  `he` may be insensitive, use `they`, `it` instead
  2:59-2:66  warning  `cripple` may be insensitive, use `person with a limp` instead
        

See alex --help for more information.

• Atom — atom-linter-alex (by @wooorm);
• Sublime — SublimeLinter-contrib-alex (by @sindresorhus).

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!