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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 @c -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
 @c
 @node Acknowledgments
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
 point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down
 in the buffer.
 
+@item
+Aurélien Aptel added dynamic module support to Emacs.  Philipp
+Stephani and others also worked on the dynamic module code.
+
 @item
 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
 implemented support for X11.
@@ -155,7 +159,7 @@ directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
 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
@@ -196,7 +200,8 @@ for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
 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{Top,,,eintr, Introduction to
+Programming in Emacs Lisp}.
 
 @item
 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
@@ -204,7 +209,7 @@ for Korean Hanja.
 
 @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.
 
@@ -247,10 +252,10 @@ for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
 
 @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.
@@ -544,11 +549,11 @@ diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
 @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
@@ -708,7 +713,7 @@ Leo Liu wrote @file{pcmpl-x.el}, providing completion for
 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
@@ -726,7 +731,7 @@ Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
 @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
@@ -822,7 +827,7 @@ command with its arguments.
 
 @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.
@@ -838,7 +843,8 @@ facility.  He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
 
 @item
-Stefan Monnier was the Emacs (co-)maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards.  He added
+Stefan Monnier was the Emacs (co-)maintainer from Emacs 23 until
+late in the development of 25.1.  He added
 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23.  He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
@@ -848,7 +854,7 @@ text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
 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
@@ -930,7 +936,7 @@ Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
 
 @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
@@ -946,6 +952,14 @@ Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
 
+@item
+Nicolas Petton wrote @file{map.el}, a library providing
+map-manipulation functions that work on alists, hash-table and arrays;
+@file{seq.el}, a library providing advanced sequence manipulation
+functions and macros; and @file{thunk.el}, a library providing
+functions and macros to delay the evaluation of forms.  He also
+created the new icon in Emacs 25.
+
 @item
 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
@@ -1003,7 +1017,7 @@ source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
 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},
@@ -1055,7 +1069,7 @@ DSSSL code.
 
 @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
@@ -1177,7 +1191,7 @@ selecting regions to follow many other systems.
 @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;
@@ -1193,15 +1207,15 @@ Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
 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
@@ -1230,7 +1244,7 @@ the keyboard.
 
 @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
@@ -1274,7 +1288,7 @@ for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with
 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
@@ -1339,15 +1353,16 @@ Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
 mode for editing VHDL source code.
 
 @item
-John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
-according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
-buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
-time spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support;
-@file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
-@file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
-@file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
-Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
-entirely in Emacs Lisp.  He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.).
+John Wiegley was the Emacs maintainer from Emacs 25 onwards.  He wrote
+@file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text according to
+regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast buffer
+switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of time
+spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support; @file{pcomplete.el}, a
+programmable completion facility; @file{remember.el}, a mode for
+jotting down things to remember; @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book
+backend for the Emacs Unified Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a
+command shell implemented entirely in Emacs Lisp.  He also contributed
+to Org mode (q.v.).
 
 @item
 Mike Williams wrote @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for
@@ -1373,7 +1388,7 @@ manual pages without the @code{man} command.
 @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