combination of space and tab characters to advance point to the next
tab stop (@pxref{Tab Stops}). For this purpose, the position of the
first non-whitespace character on the preceding line is treated as an
-additional tab stop, so you can use @key{TAB} to ``align'' point with
+additional tab stop, so you can use @key{TAB} to align point with
the preceding line. If the region is active (@pxref{Using Region}),
@key{TAB} acts specially: it indents each line in the region so that
its first non-whitespace character is aligned with the preceding line.
@kindex M-^
@findex delete-indentation
Merge the previous and the current line (@code{delete-indentation}).
-This ``joins'' the two lines cleanly, by replacing any indentation at
+This joins the two lines cleanly, by replacing any indentation at
the front of the current line, together with the line boundary, with a
single space.
@findex indent-rigidly
@cindex remove indentation
This command is used to change the indentation of all lines that begin
-in the region, moving the affected lines as a ``rigid'' unit.
+in the region, moving the affected lines as a rigid unit.
If called with no argument, the command activates a transient mode for
adjusting the indentation of the affected lines interactively. While