diff --git a/lib/elixir/lib/application.ex b/lib/elixir/lib/application.ex
index 511a4247ad8..40175ae325b 100644
--- a/lib/elixir/lib/application.ex
+++ b/lib/elixir/lib/application.ex
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ defmodule Application do
   `mix.exs`, and others are generated by Mix itself.
 
   You can learn more about the generation of application resource files in the
-  documentation of `Mix.Tasks.Compile.App`, available as well by running `mix
-  help compile.app`.
+  documentation of `Mix.Tasks.Compile.App`, available as well by running
+  `mix help compile.app`.
 
   ## The application environment
 
diff --git a/lib/mix/lib/mix.ex b/lib/mix/lib/mix.ex
index f7ee7d74cfc..8ce4faadfc3 100644
--- a/lib/mix/lib/mix.ex
+++ b/lib/mix/lib/mix.ex
@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ defmodule Mix do
       end
 
   In the example above we have created 2 aliases, the first example
-  `taskalias` will run task `hex.info`, then (`run`)[`Mix.Tasks.Run`]
-  to run an Elixir script, then (`cmd`)[`Mix.Tasks.Cmd`] to run a
+  `taskalias` will run task `mix hex.info`, then `mix run`
+  to run an Elixir script, then `mix cmd` to run a
   command line bash script. This shows how powerful aliases mixed
   with mix tasks can be.