which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
-the ``generic mode'' feature.
+the generic mode feature.
@item
Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
@file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. He also
-wrote the ``Introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp'' manual.
+wrote the Emacs Lisp introduction. @xref{,,,eintr, Introduction to
+Programming in Emacs Lisp}.
@item
Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
@item
Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
-prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS. Yamamoto Mitsuharu continued to
+prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS@. Yamamoto Mitsuharu continued to
contribute to Mac OS support in the newer Nextstep port; and also
improved support for multi-monitor displays.
@item
Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
-files as ``thumbnails''.
+files as thumbnails.
@item
-Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
+Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of desktop notifications
(@file{notifications.el}, and related packages for ERC and Gnus);
and @file{color.el}, a library for general color manipulation.
He also made various contributions to Gnus.
@file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
@item
-Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game.
+Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's Game of Life.
@item
Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
-load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.
+load-path problems when some Lisp file shadows another.
@item
Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
miscellaneous external tools; and revamped support for Octave in Emacs 24.4.
@item
-Károly Lőrentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
+Károly Lőrentey wrote the multi-terminal code, which allows
Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
@item
@file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
-for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
+for motion in @code{CapitalizedWordIdentifiers}; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
by setting up appropriate display tables; the version of
@file{python.el} used prior to Emacs 24.3; @file{smiley.el}, a
@item
Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
-Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
+Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an electric browser for
buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
and @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
used in mail messages and news articles.
conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
@file{bibtex-style.el} for Bib@TeX{} Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
-client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; @file{smie.el}, a generic
+client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD); @file{smie.el}, a generic
indentation engine; and @file{pcase.el}, implementing ML-style pattern
matching. In Emacs 24, he integrated the lexical binding code,
cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
@item
Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
-the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
+the Towers of Hanoi puzzle.
@item
William M. Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
@file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
-@file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like
+@file{cookie1.el}, support for fortune-cookie programs like
@file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
@item
Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24;
-and implemented ``pixel-wise'' resizing of windows and frames.
+and implemented pixel-wise resizing of windows and frames.
@item
Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
@item
Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
-periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
+periods. In addition to much of the core Emacs code, he has
written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
@file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
@file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
browsing indices made from buffer contents.
@item
-Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual
-cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
+Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a virtual
+cursor that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
@item
Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
@item
Kim F. Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
-process support, and networking support. He also wrote
+process support, and networking support. He also wrote
@file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
@item
Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
-image files as ``thumbnails''.
+image files as thumbnails.
@item
Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
time zones.
@item
-Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
+Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a Web hotlist package.
@item
Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
@item
Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
linker scripts, and contributed subword handling and style
-``guessing'' in CC mode.
+guessing in CC mode.
@item
Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track