diff --git a/History.markdown b/History.markdown
index 6a66a1af..d5b641bf 100644
--- a/History.markdown
+++ b/History.markdown
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   * Catch and fix invalid `paginate` values (#1390)
   * Remove superfluous `div.container` from the default html template for
     `jekyll new` (#1315)
-  * Add -D short-form switch for the drafts option (#1394)
+  * Add `-D` short-form switch for the drafts option (#1394)
   * Update the links in the site template for Twitter and GitHub (#1400)
   * Update dummy email address to example.com domain (#1408)
   * Update normalize.css to v2.1.2 and minify; add rake task to update
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
   * Fix markup for the Kramdown options (#1445)
   * Fix typos in the History file (#1454)
   * Add trailing slash to site's post URL (#1462)
-  * Clarify that --config will take multiple files (#1474)
+  * Clarify that `--config` will take multiple files (#1474)
   * Fix docs/templates.md private gist example (#1477)
   * Use `site.repository` for Jekyll's GitHub URL (#1463)
   * Add `jekyll-pageless-redirects` to list of third-party plugins (#1486)
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
   * Allow symlinked files in unsafe mode (#824)
   * Add 'gist' Liquid tag to core (#822, #861)
   * New format of Jekyll output (#795)
-  * Reinstate --limit_posts and --future switches (#788)
+  * Reinstate `--limit_posts` and `--future` switches (#788)
   * Remove ambiguity from command descriptions (#815)
   * Fix SafeYAML Warnings (#807)
   * Relaxed Kramdown version to 0.14 (#808)
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
   * Catch all exceptions, not just StandardError descendents (#1007)
   * Bullet-proof limit_posts option (#1004)
   * Read in YAML as UTF-8 to accept non-ASCII chars (#836)
-  * Fix the CLI option --plugins to actually accept dirs and files (#993)
+  * Fix the CLI option `--plugins` to actually accept dirs and files (#993)
   * Allow 'excerpt' in YAML Front-Matter to override the extracted excerpt (#946)
   * Fix cascade problem with site.baseurl, site.port and site.host. (#935)
   * Filter out directories with valid post names (#875)