> If Ctrl+v is bound to paste, how do you insert a verbatim character in the shell?

For those unaware:

> Unix interactive terminals use Control-V to mean "the next character should be treated literally" (the mnemonic here is "V is for verbatim"). This allows a user to insert a literal Control-C or Control-H or similar control characters that would otherwise be handled by the terminal. This behavior was copied by text editors like vi and Unix shells like bash and tcsh, which offer text editing on the command line.[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-V

You don't but you don't notice if you never did anything like that. Half of the keybinds listed by 'stty -a' are a mystery to mankind.

Seems to me a reasonable concern but I'd bet it's only for a minority of users... so perfect candidate to have implemented, but given as a disabled by default setting.