In case people don't know about this: instead of '?', a user can get the help 
text using either of the following two key sequences: "Alt =" or "Alt ?". 
(These are the default key bindings for "possible-completions" in 
readline/bash.)

An-Cheng Huang wrote:
> That was the first thing I tried when we started implementing the help 
> system. The problem is when the user actually wants to input a '?' character, 
> how do we rebind the '?' key back to the actual character? I also tried to 
> rebind the key after seeing a quote (assuming '?' characters can only appear 
> in quotes), etc., etc. In the end, this is a limitation in the readline 
> library (which is used by bash for command line input). We _could_ change 
> readline, I suppose, somewhere down the road.
> 
> An-Cheng
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