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-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/custom.texi2
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/display.texi2
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/emacs.texi4
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/files.texi2
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/msdog-xtra.texi2
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/msdog.texi2
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/vc-xtra.texi4
8 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 2f4653540e2..f097bb5cd34 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-02-28 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+ * custom.texi, display.texi, emacs.texi, files.texi:
+ * msdog-xtra.texi, msdog.texi, vc-xtra.texi:
+ Standardize possessive apostrophe usage.
+
2012-02-25 Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
* macos.texi (Mac / GNUstep Customization): Remove text about
diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
index b2215c19e75..82a7a02a9ac 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ directory specified by the variable @code{custom-theme-directory}
(which defaults to @file{~/.emacs.d/}), and a directory named
@file{etc/themes} in your Emacs installation (see the variable
@code{data-directory}). The latter contains several Custom themes
-which are distributed with Emacs, which customize Emacs' faces to fit
+which are distributed with Emacs, which customize Emacs's faces to fit
various color schemes. (Note, however, that Custom themes need not be
restricted to this purpose; they can be used to customize variables
too).
diff --git a/doc/emacs/display.texi b/doc/emacs/display.texi
index d86e0049fb5..54dbc0a78e1 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/display.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ the text is displayed.
* Follow Mode:: Follow mode lets two windows scroll as one.
* Faces:: How to change the display style using faces.
* Colors:: Specifying colors for faces.
-* Standard Faces:: Emacs' predefined faces.
+* Standard Faces:: The main predefined faces.
* Text Scale:: Increasing or decreasing text size in a buffer.
* Font Lock:: Minor mode for syntactic highlighting using faces.
* Highlight Interactively:: Tell Emacs what text to highlight.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
index ef438cd3067..be8137aae30 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Major Structures of Emacs
* International:: Using non-@acronym{ASCII} character sets.
Advanced Features
-* Modes:: Major and minor modes alter Emacs' basic behavior.
+* Modes:: Major and minor modes alter Emacs's basic behavior.
* Indentation:: Editing the white space at the beginnings of lines.
* Text:: Commands and modes for editing human languages.
* Programs:: Commands and modes for editing programs.
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ Controlling the Display
* Follow Mode:: Follow mode lets two windows scroll as one.
* Faces:: How to change the display style using faces.
* Colors:: Specifying colors for faces.
-* Standard Faces:: Emacs' predefined faces.
+* Standard Faces:: The main predefined faces.
* Text Scale:: Increasing or decreasing text size in a buffer.
* Font Lock:: Minor mode for syntactic highlighting using faces.
* Highlight Interactively:: Tell Emacs what text to highlight.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi
index 3adc735154b..0d38728f7cf 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/files.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ see @ref{Drag and Drop}, and @ref{Misc Dired Features}.
Each time you visit a file, Emacs automatically scans its contents
to detect what character encoding and end-of-line convention it uses,
-and converts these to Emacs' internal encoding and end-of-line
+and converts these to Emacs's internal encoding and end-of-line
convention within the buffer. When you save the buffer, Emacs
performs the inverse conversion, writing the file to disk with its
original encoding and end-of-line convention. @xref{Coding Systems}.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/msdog-xtra.texi b/doc/emacs/msdog-xtra.texi
index 509b9de754d..2191d799a2b 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/msdog-xtra.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/msdog-xtra.texi
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ you use an Emacs that was built for MS-DOS.
@ifnottex
@xref{Text and Binary}, for information
@end ifnottex
-about Emacs' special handling of text files under MS-DOS (and Windows).
+about Emacs's special handling of text files under MS-DOS (and Windows).
@menu
* Keyboard: MS-DOS Keyboard. Keyboard conventions on MS-DOS.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/msdog.texi b/doc/emacs/msdog.texi
index 93bc5f0e4b1..2dcc1fa42f8 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/msdog.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/msdog.texi
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ then change their minds; if this has the effect of bringing up the
Windows menu, it alters the meaning of subsequent commands. Many
users find this frustrating.
- You can re-enable Windows' default handling of tapping the @key{ALT}
+ You can re-enable Windows's default handling of tapping the @key{ALT}
key by setting @code{w32-pass-alt-to-system} to a non-@code{nil}
value.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/vc-xtra.texi b/doc/emacs/vc-xtra.texi
index 51137a273d3..f04f939cced 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/vc-xtra.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/vc-xtra.texi
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 2004-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2004-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
@c
@c This file is included in emacs-xtra.texi when producing the printed
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
@node Advanced VC Usage
@section Advanced VC Usage
- Commonly used features of Emacs' version control (VC) support are
+ Commonly used features of Emacs's version control (VC) support are
described in the main Emacs manual (@pxref{Version Control,,,emacs,
the Emacs Manual}). This chapter describes more advanced VC usage.