A terminal pager, paging program or simply pager is a

computer program A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. Computer programs are one component of software, which also includes documentation and other intangible components. A computer progra ...

used to view (but not modify) the contents of a

text file A text file (sometimes spelled textfile; an old alternative name is flatfile) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists stored as data within a computer file system. In operat ...

moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. Some, but not all, pagers allow movement up a file. A popular

cross-platform In computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms. Some cross-platform software ...

terminal pager is more, which can move forwards and backwards in text files but cannot move backwards in

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.manpage of more
/ref> less is a more advanced pager that allows movement forward and backward, and contains extra functions such as search.manpage of less
/ref> Some programs incorporate their own paging function, for example bash's tab completion function.

Examples

* more * less * pg * most * nano --view *

emacs 



Emacs , originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor MACroS"), is a family of  text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant,  GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable,  ...
 -nw -e "(view-mode)"

* w3m

References

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