General purpose reformating and rewording in (a few places). This should
also make markdown linting happier.
Prefer back-ticks wherever useful and use `console` for code blocks to
be executed on terminal.
Also, update references links wherever possible (including update from
'http://' to 'https://').
Module `directory` used to set AUTO_NAME_DIRS. This was changed in
73e94b84 but README.md hasn't been updated. This looks like an
accidental omission that this commit fixes.