less is more

If the output of a program takes more than one page, you run it through more. Why not use less instead? less is exactly like more, except that you can scroll backwards. However, man uses more to display man pages, how can we get it to use less instead?

The solution is simple, in your .shrc or .bashrc, add the following:

export PAGER="less -Fc"
alias more="less -Fc"

Now man (and any other program that uses more) should use less instead.