I built emacs from git (commit a486fabb41cdbaa5813c2687fd4008945297d71d) via git clean -dxf ./autogen.sh ./configure make all install I then invoked it like this open --new ~/git-repositories/3rd-party/emacs-master/nextstep/Emacs-master.app/ --args -Q I then invoked info on the file elisp.info, something like this (I'm not sure exactly what I typed, but it wound up leaving this in command-history) (info "~/git-repositories/3rd-party/emacs-master/info/elisp.info" nil) I then typed g Keys SPC in SPC Documentation RET I then noticed that the description of text-quoting-style looked like this: -- Variable: text-quoting-style The value of this variable is a symbol that specifies the style Emacs should use for single quotes in the wording of help and messages. If the variable's value is `curve', the style is \342\200\230like this\342\200\231 with curved single quotes. If the value is `straight', the style is 'like this' with straight apostrophes. It's supposed to have actual curly quotes instead of octal escape sequences. In GNU Emacs 26.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.1.0, NS appkit-1504.60 Version 10.12.1 (Build 16B2555)) of 2016-12-03 built on Eric-Hanchrows-MacBook-Pro.local Repository revision: a486fabb41cdbaa5813c2687fd4008945297d71d Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1504 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Composing main Info directory...done Quit Making completion list... Type C-x 1 to delete the help window. C-x | is undefined Configured features: NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Info Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message subr-x puny format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils help-fns radix-tree map seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode cconv cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs info easymenu time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 273252 11695) (symbols 48 29287 0) (miscs 40 60 246) (strings 32 42280 7568) (string-bytes 1 883829) (vectors 16 35721) (vector-slots 8 689453 7268) (floats 8 180 148) (intervals 56 4829 0) (buffers 976 15))