Re: Colon in index items

[Richard Stallman]

      Let's assume that we have a manual 
    about C++ classes, which describes a class `foo'.  Then it will probably 
    document methods like `foo:foo', `foo:~foo', and `foo:bar'.  As a user 
    who reads that manual and looks for the methods from that class, I'd try 
    typing "i foo: TAB".  Is that what you have in mind as well?

Yes.  And either way the result would failure, since the menu
item in the index won't start with `foo:'.

Let's quickly change Makeinfo to convert colon to `<colon>'
and change the Emacs manual sources back.