I did man maldet trying to get information about (what I can call) maldet wildcards which are represented by question marks.I clicked / and searched \? and also for \?, but nothing was found even though the man pages clearly contain question marks.Given I used an escaping metacharacter and it the search still failed, I ask here why.I should note that other patterns, like batch for example, were found without problems. The reason I searched for a question mark is to find a command containing it.
Searching question marks in man
man;search
You may have problems with your pager. Try MANPAGER=less man maldet or man --pager=less maldet and see if that helps. To make it permanent, in your .bashrc put the following line: export MANPAGER=less