Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex]

[Richard Stallman]

    Rather than using \: to escape a colon, which would not be backwards
    compatible so would take years to filter through, it might be a good
    idea to introduce SGML character entities to texinfo, so a colon could
    be escaped as :

That seems plausible.

    This will only work if &, # and ; do not already have special meaning in
    texinfo

They don't.

Karl, what do you think of this idea?