Merge branch 'emacs-24'.

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@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ distributed version-control systems. That is, they should consist of
 
   (Rather than anything involving "ditto" and suchlike.)
 
+- Emacs generally follows the GNU coding standards when it comes to ChangeLogs:
+  http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html
+  One exception is that we still sometimes quote `like-this' (as the
+  standards used to recommend) rather than 'like-this' (as they do now),
+  because `...' is so widely used elsewhere in Emacs.
+  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-05/msg00514.html
+
 ** Unnecessary metainformation
 
 There is no need to make separate change log entries for files such as