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diff --git a/runtime/lua/vim/_meta/api.lua b/runtime/lua/vim/_meta/api.lua
index acd12b353d..b2385197bd 100644
--- a/runtime/lua/vim/_meta/api.lua
+++ b/runtime/lua/vim/_meta/api.lua
@@ -963,9 +963,9 @@ function vim.api.nvim_create_augroup(name, opts) end
--- - id: (number) autocommand id
--- - event: (string) name of the triggered event `autocmd-events`
--- - group: (number|nil) autocommand group id, if any
---- - match: (string) expanded value of [<amatch>]
---- - buf: (number) expanded value of [<abuf>]
---- - file: (string) expanded value of [<afile>]
+--- - file: (string) [<afile>] (not expanded to a full path)
+--- - match: (string) [<amatch>] (expanded to a full path)
+--- - buf: (number) [<abuf>]
--- - data: (any) arbitrary data passed from [nvim_exec_autocmds()] [event-data]()
--- - command (string) optional: Vim command to execute on event. Cannot be used with
--- {callback}
@@ -1654,7 +1654,7 @@ function vim.api.nvim_notify(msg, log_level, opts) end
--- Open a terminal instance in a buffer
---
--- By default (and currently the only option) the terminal will not be
---- connected to an external process. Instead, input send on the channel
+--- connected to an external process. Instead, input sent on the channel
--- will be echoed directly by the terminal. This is useful to display
--- ANSI terminal sequences returned as part of a rpc message, or similar.
---
@@ -1665,6 +1665,18 @@ function vim.api.nvim_notify(msg, log_level, opts) end
--- Then `nvim_chan_send()` can be called immediately to process sequences
--- 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]()
+---
+--- ```lua
+--- vim.api.nvim_create_user_command('TermHl', function()
+--- local b = vim.api.nvim_create_buf(false, true)
+--- local chan = vim.api.nvim_open_term(b, {})
+--- vim.api.nvim_chan_send(chan, table.concat(vim.api.nvim_buf_get_lines(0, 0, -1, false), '\n'))
+--- vim.api.nvim_win_set_buf(0, b)
+--- end, { desc = 'Highlights ANSI termcodes in curbuf' })
+--- ```
+---
--- @param buffer integer the buffer to use (expected to be empty)
--- @param opts vim.api.keyset.open_term Optional parameters.
--- - on_input: Lua callback for input sent, i e keypresses in terminal