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diff --git a/doc/api/events.md b/doc/api/events.md index e5ae1e3fe7b..536a87d1b46 100644 --- a/doc/api/events.md +++ b/doc/api/events.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Much of the Node.js core API is built around an idiomatic asynchronous event-driven architecture in which certain kinds of objects (called "emitters") -periodically emit named events that cause Function objects ("listeners") to be +periodically emit named events that cause `Function` objects ("listeners") to be called. For instance: a [`net.Server`][] object emits an event each time a peer @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ The `EventEmitter` class is defined and exposed by the `events` module: const EventEmitter = require('events'); ``` -All EventEmitters emit the event `'newListener'` when new listeners are +All `EventEmitter`s emit the event `'newListener'` when new listeners are added and `'removeListener'` when existing listeners are removed. ### Event: 'newListener' @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ added: v6.0.0 - Returns: {Array} Returns an array listing the events for which the emitter has registered -listeners. The values in the array will be strings or Symbols. +listeners. The values in the array will be strings or `Symbol`s. ```js const EventEmitter = require('events'); @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ added: v0.3.5 - `n` {integer} - Returns: {EventEmitter} -By default EventEmitters will print a warning if more than `10` listeners are +By default `EventEmitter`s will print a warning if more than `10` listeners are added for a particular event. This is a useful default that helps finding memory leaks. Obviously, not all events should be limited to just 10 listeners. The `emitter.setMaxListeners()` method allows the limit to be modified for this |