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diff --git a/runtime/lua/vim/_meta/api.lua b/runtime/lua/vim/_meta/api.lua
index f6d8153c27..b5d8a0937d 100644
--- a/runtime/lua/vim/_meta/api.lua
+++ b/runtime/lua/vim/_meta/api.lua
@@ -1097,18 +1097,20 @@ function vim.api.nvim_del_user_command(name) end
--- @param name string Variable name
function vim.api.nvim_del_var(name) end
---- Echo a message.
+--- Prints a message given by a list of `[text, hl_group]` "chunks".
---
---- @param chunks any[] A list of `[text, hl_group]` arrays, each representing a
---- text chunk with specified highlight group name or ID.
---- `hl_group` element can be omitted for no highlight.
+--- Example:
+--- ```lua
+--- vim.api.nvim_echo({ { 'chunk1-line1\nchunk1-line2\n' }, { 'chunk2-line1' } }, true, {})
+--- ```
+---
+--- @param chunks any[] List of `[text, hl_group]` pairs, where each is a `text` string highlighted by
+--- the (optional) name or ID `hl_group`.
--- @param history boolean if true, add to `message-history`.
--- @param opts vim.api.keyset.echo_opts Optional parameters.
---- - err: Treat the message like `:echoerr`. Omitted `hlgroup`
---- uses `hl-ErrorMsg` instead.
---- - verbose: Message is printed as a result of 'verbose' option.
---- If Nvim was invoked with -V3log_file, the message will be
---- redirected to the log_file and suppressed from direct output.
+--- - err: Treat the message like `:echoerr`. Sets `hl_group` to `hl-ErrorMsg` by default.
+--- - verbose: Message is controlled by the 'verbose' option. Nvim invoked with `-V3log`
+--- will write the message to the "log" file instead of standard output.
function vim.api.nvim_echo(chunks, history, opts) end
--- @deprecated
@@ -1276,6 +1278,8 @@ function vim.api.nvim_get_autocmds(opts) end
--- Gets information about a channel.
---
+--- See `nvim_list_uis()` for an example of how to get channel info.
+---
--- @param chan integer channel_id, or 0 for current channel
--- @return table<string,any> # Channel info dict with these keys:
--- - "id" Channel id.
@@ -1293,8 +1297,8 @@ function vim.api.nvim_get_autocmds(opts) end
--- "/dev/pts/1". If unknown, the key will still be present if a pty is used (e.g.
--- for conpty on Windows).
--- - "buffer" (optional) Buffer connected to |terminal| instance.
---- - "client" (optional) Info about the peer (client on the other end of the RPC channel),
---- which it provided via |nvim_set_client_info()|.
+--- - "client" (optional) Info about the peer (client on the other end of the channel), as set
+--- by |nvim_set_client_info()|.
---
function vim.api.nvim_get_chan_info(chan) end
@@ -1616,6 +1620,14 @@ function vim.api.nvim_list_tabpages() end
--- Gets a list of dictionaries representing attached UIs.
---
+--- Example: The Nvim builtin `TUI` sets its channel info as described in `startup-tui`. In
+--- particular, it sets `client.name` to "nvim-tui". So you can check if the TUI is running by
+--- inspecting the client name of each UI:
+---
+--- ```lua
+--- vim.print(vim.api.nvim_get_chan_info(vim.api.nvim_list_uis()[1].chan).client.name)
+--- ```
+---
--- @return any[] # Array of UI dictionaries, each with these keys:
--- - "height" Requested height of the UI
--- - "width" Requested width of the UI
@@ -1661,7 +1673,8 @@ function vim.api.nvim_notify(msg, log_level, opts) end
--- in a virtual terminal having the intended size.
---
--- Example: this `TermHl` command can be used to display and highlight raw ANSI termcodes, so you
---- can use Nvim as a "scrollback pager" (for terminals like kitty): [terminal-scrollback-pager]()
+--- can use Nvim as a "scrollback pager" (for terminals like kitty): [ansi-colorize]()
+--- [terminal-scrollback-pager]()
---
--- ```lua
--- vim.api.nvim_create_user_command('TermHl', function()