diff --git a/runtime/doc/develop.txt b/runtime/doc/develop.txt
index f1d74326c7..28f43a70e0 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/develop.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/develop.txt
@@ -102,11 +102,11 @@ Examples:
 The provider framework invokes Vimscript from C.  It is composed of two
 functions in eval.c:
 
-- eval_call_provider(name, method, arguments, discard): calls
-  provider#{name}#Call with the method and arguments. If discard is true, any
+- eval_call_provider({name}, {method}, {arguments}, {discard}): Calls
+  `provider#{name}#Call` with {method} and {arguments}. If {discard} is true, any
   value returned by the provider will be discarded and empty value will be
   returned.
-- eval_has_provider(name): Checks the `g:loaded_{name}_provider` variable
+- eval_has_provider({name}): Checks the `g:loaded_{name}_provider` variable
   which must be set to 2 by the provider script to indicate that it is
   "enabled and working". Called by |has()| to check if features are available.
 
diff --git a/runtime/doc/lua.txt b/runtime/doc/lua.txt
index a8d36d7062..9c9a9db175 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/lua.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/lua.txt
@@ -121,16 +121,14 @@ languages like Python and C#. Example: >lua
 
     func_with_opts { foo = true, filename = "hello.world" }
 <
-There's nothing special going on here except that parentheses are treated as
-whitespace. But visually, this small bit of sugar gets reasonably close to
-a "keyword args" interface. Nvim code tends to prefer this style.
-
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-LUA PATTERNS                                                    *lua-patterns*
+There's nothing special going on here except that parentheses are implicitly
+added. But visually, this small bit of sugar gets reasonably close to a
+"keyword args" interface.
 
+                                                                   *lua-regex*
 Lua intentionally does not support regular expressions, instead it has limited
-"patterns" |lua-pattern| which avoid the performance pitfalls of extended
-regex. Lua scripts can also use Vim regex via |vim.regex()|.
+|lua-patterns| which avoid the performance pitfalls of extended regex. Lua
+scripts can also use Vim regex via |vim.regex()|.
 
 Examples: >lua
 
diff --git a/runtime/doc/luaref.txt b/runtime/doc/luaref.txt
index 467b5760cf..e7b62f4c6c 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/luaref.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/luaref.txt
@@ -4150,7 +4150,7 @@ string.upper({s})                                               *string.upper()*
         locale.
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-5.4.1  Patterns                                 *lua-patterns
+5.4.1  Patterns                                 *lua-patterns*
 
 A character class is used to represent a set of characters. The following
 combinations are allowed in describing a character class:
@@ -4811,7 +4811,7 @@ debug.setupvalue({func}, {up}, {value})                     *debug.setupvalue()*
         upvalue with the given index. Otherwise, it returns the name of the
         upvalue.
 
-debug.traceback([{thread},] [{message}] [,{level}])          *debug.traceback()*
+debug.traceback([{thread},] [{message} [,{level}]])          *debug.traceback()*
         Returns a string with a traceback of the call stack. An optional
         {message} string is appended at the beginning of the traceback. An
         optional {level} number tells at which level to start the traceback
diff --git a/runtime/lua/man.lua b/runtime/lua/man.lua
index dcdfc2b87f..ac15aff60c 100644
--- a/runtime/lua/man.lua
+++ b/runtime/lua/man.lua
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ local function get_path(sect, name, silent)
   -- If you run man -w strlen and string.3 comes up first, this is a problem. We
   -- should search for a matching named one in the results list.
   -- However, if you search for man -w clock_gettime, you will *only* get
-  -- clock_getres.2, which is the right page. Searching the resuls for
+  -- clock_getres.2, which is the right page. Searching the results for
   -- clock_gettime will no longer work. In this case, we should just use the
   -- first one that was found in the correct section.
   --