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28.0.50; M-x landmark not exists, while described in manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 08:37:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.1

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>, 40401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40401: 28.0.50; M-x landmark not exists, while described in manual
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 07:11:38 -0400

found 40401 25.1
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Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support> writes:

> In the section Amusements, manual describes:
>
>> ‘M-x landmark’ runs a relatively non-participatory game in which a
>> robot attempts to maneuver towards a tree at the center of the window
>> based on unique olfactory cues from each of the four directions.
>
> Yet M-x landmark does not work

It seems to have been moved to lisp/obsolete [1: 1a2773ac2d] (so for
now, M-x load-library landmark RET M-x landmark does work).  There is a
comment in it saying

    ;; *Note: This package has now moved to elpa.gnu.org.*

Should we remove mention of it from the manual?

[1: 1a2773ac2d]: 2015-07-07 12:32:13 +0200
  * lisp/play/landmark.el: Move to lisp/obsolete/
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=1a2773ac2d05c88f9c246ab9fbf0587921000d3a
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