diff --git a/lisp/info.el b/lisp/info.el
index e12cc18e134..5277d5ba327 100644
--- a/lisp/info.el
+++ b/lisp/info.el
@@ -1540,7 +1540,7 @@ FOOTNOTENAME may be an abbreviation of the reference name."
       (setq i (+ i 1)))
     (Info-goto-node target)))
 
-(defconst Info-menu-entry-name-re "\\(?:[^:\n]+\\|:[^:,.;() \t\n]\\)*"
+(defconst Info-menu-entry-name-re "\\(?:[^:\n]\\|:[^,.;() \t\n]\\)*"
   "Regexp that matches a menu entry name upto but not including the colon.
 Because of ambiguities, this should be concatenated with something like
 `:' and `Info-following-node-name-re'.")