Comment by dspillett

> That said, I find pagers annoying because it's hard to switch back and forth between typing a command and the docs.

I tend to live inside byobu on the command line, or "pure" tmux/screen depending on availability. When opening a man page or similar I do it in a fresh pane so there is less back & forth.

Or of course usually you are using the CLI within a GUI so you have the option of a separate terminal too, or a web browser to the one version or other docs, though when using an external resources rather than the local man page there is the slight gotcha of making sure versions match (the main docs online may be for a newer revision than the one your OS currently has in its package repo).