diff --git a/doc/api/cli.md b/doc/api/cli.md index b6e42a5bc8100d..4b8ce937360549 100644 --- a/doc/api/cli.md +++ b/doc/api/cli.md @@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ if they had been specified on the command line before the actual command line (so they can be overridden). Node.js will exit with an error if an option that is not allowed in the environment is used, such as `-p` or a script file. -Node options that are allowed are: +Node.js options that are allowed are: - `--enable-fips` - `--experimental-modules` - `--experimental-repl-await` diff --git a/doc/api/documentation.md b/doc/api/documentation.md index afad0e653efbb5..a1b0d5903b5130 100644 --- a/doc/api/documentation.md +++ b/doc/api/documentation.md @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ pages (short for manual pages) which describe how the syscalls work. Most Unix syscalls have Windows equivalents, but behavior may differ on Windows relative to Linux and macOS. For an example of the subtle ways in which it's -sometimes impossible to replace Unix syscall semantics on Windows, see [Node +sometimes impossible to replace Unix syscall semantics on Windows, see [Node.js issue 4760](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4760). [`'warning'`]: process.html#process_event_warning diff --git a/doc/api/inspector.md b/doc/api/inspector.md index 92fcb0e03f89e4..02aa1ac1416acd 100644 --- a/doc/api/inspector.md +++ b/doc/api/inspector.md @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ session.post('Runtime.evaluate', { expression: '2 + 2' }, The latest version of the V8 inspector protocol is published on the [Chrome DevTools Protocol Viewer][]. -Node inspector supports all the Chrome DevTools Protocol domains declared +Node.js inspector supports all the Chrome DevTools Protocol domains declared by V8. Chrome DevTools Protocol domain provides an interface for interacting with one of the runtime agents used to inspect the application state and listen to the run-time events. diff --git a/doc/api/modules.md b/doc/api/modules.md index 2475fa2755e6d3..c7d9d4b59c7726 100644 --- a/doc/api/modules.md +++ b/doc/api/modules.md @@ -376,8 +376,9 @@ Error: Cannot find module 'some-library' If the module identifier passed to `require()` is not a [core](#modules_core_modules) module, and does not begin with `'/'`, `'../'`, or `'./'`, then Node.js starts at the parent directory of the current module, and -adds `/node_modules`, and attempts to load the module from that location. Node -will not append `node_modules` to a path already ending in `node_modules`. +adds `/node_modules`, and attempts to load the module from that location. +Node.js will not append `node_modules` to a path already ending in +`node_modules`. If it is not found there, then it moves to the parent directory, and so on, until the root of the file system is reached. diff --git a/doc/guides/node-postmortem-support.md b/doc/guides/node-postmortem-support.md index 07897482fa2a87..9a4370016ce64a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/node-postmortem-support.md +++ b/doc/guides/node-postmortem-support.md @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ Node.js always includes these constants in the final build. ### Node.js Debug Symbols -Node prefixes all postmortem constants with `nodedbg_`, and they complement V8 -constants by providing ways to inspect Node-specific structures, like +Node.js prefixes all postmortem constants with `nodedbg_`, and they complement +V8 constants by providing ways to inspect Node.js-specific structures, like `node::Environment`, `node::BaseObject` and its descendants, classes from `src/utils.h` and others. Those constants are declared in `src/node_postmortem_metadata.cc`, and most of them are calculated at compile @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class ReqWrap : public AsyncWrap { ``` There are also tests on `test/cctest/test_node_postmortem_metadata.cc` to make -sure all Node postmortem metadata are calculated correctly. +sure all Node.js postmortem metadata are calculated correctly. ## Tools and References diff --git a/doc/node.1 b/doc/node.1 index d538273409ad71..397b40ed71e3f4 100644 --- a/doc/node.1 +++ b/doc/node.1 @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ Evaluate as JavaScript. . .It Fl h , Fl -help -Print node command line options. +Print Node.js command line options. The output of this option is less detailed than this document. . .It Fl i , Fl -interactive @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ Preload the specified at startup. Follows `require()`'s module resolution rules. .Ar module -may be either a path to a file, or a node module name. +may be either a path to a file, or a Node.js module name. . .It Fl v , Fl -version Print node's version. @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ process warnings are silenced. A space-separated list of command-line .Ar options , which are interpreted as if they had been specified on the command-line before the actual command (so they can be overridden). -Node will exit with an error if an option that is not allowed in the environment is used, such as +Node.js will exit with an error if an option that is not allowed in the environment is used, such as .Fl -print or a script file. .