Cannot use feature(doc_spotlight)

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I would like to try new spotlight doc attribute but, although i'm using nightly build, it seems that needed feature(doc_spotlight) is unknown:

error[E0635]: unknown feature `doc_spotlight`
--> src/lib.rs:1:12
 |
 | #![feature(doc_spotlight)]
 |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Any ideas?

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Which nightly are you using? Try a rustup update.

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Hi,
I'm using the latest one:

1.44.0-nightly (3712e11a8 2020-04-12)

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playground doesn't seem to recognize it either

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https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/69514

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Hi,

many thanks, i don't check all PR and commits. I deduce that documentation is not updated.

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If you've got time, would you be able to create a PR to update the bits of documentation you were using? That way you'll be able to help the next guy who's struggling with the doc_spotlight feature.

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Hi,

I'm reading documentation at this URL:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/unstable-book/language-features/doc-spotlight.html

I don't know exactly which sources this documentation is built from. I only found that documentation in rust repo by checking out branch to-be-dev-nightly, but that branch doesn't exist anymore. Do you know what was the purpose of that branch?

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It looks like this is already removed from the version of the Unstable Book that ships with the nightly toolchain.

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Hi,

it would be interesting to know when and where is originated the documentation at this URL:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/unstable-book/language-features/doc-spotlight.html

and why it's not updated.

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That's the version that ships with the stable toolchain, so it currently shows the documentation from Rust 1.42.0. It's updated every six weeks, when a new version of Rust is released.

Perhaps for the unstable book specifically, the web site should link to the nightly version instead of the stable version.

Update: Filed Link to nightly version of the Unstable Book by mbrubeck · Pull Request #1069 · rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org · GitHub

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Oh, i thought that should already be linked to nightly unstable book. Thank you very much for the PR.

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